From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:46:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20150428144600.GA4503@debian> References: <87r3r68slv.fsf@fsf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6m8-0000y3-W8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:46:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6m4-0003JU-Qv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:46:16 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:55717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6m4-0003Ip-IN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:46:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r3r68slv.fsf@fsf.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Thompson Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:52:44PM -0400, David Thompson wrote: > +(define-public soil First a provocative question: The project has been created in 2007 and apparently abandoned in 2008. Is it still worth packaging, or would it not be preferable to look for a suitable replacement? > + ;; No versioned archive available. > + (uri "http://www.lonesock.net/files/soil.zip") Normally, this would not work: As soon as a new version comes out, we would lose the old one, except for a copy on hydra that might be garbage collected. So I think it would be preferable to use an svn checkout. In this particular case, since there are no new releases, the argument becomes moot... Andreas