From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gnu: Add python2-shedskin. Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:04:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20160425040459.0fe60975@scratchpost.org> References: <20160330002745.30a98f5c@scratchpost.org> <20160330004942.6a24c141@scratchpost.org> <20160330072659.794e2d16@scratchpost.org> <20160406221909.GB8974@jasmine> <20160407141324.0cc1160b@scratchpost.org> <20160407151653.GB18750@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auVtc-0000wz-Ui for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:05:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auVtZ-0002hu-Od for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:05:08 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:39288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auVtZ-0002gK-J6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:05:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160407151653.GB18750@jasmine> 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" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > My instinct is that we should make it refer directly to the libraries > (pcre and libgc) but that user-facing executables like make and g++ > should be installed by the user. Yeah, I did it like that in the existing patch. > The examples may not be 100% relevant; is shedskin totally useless > without make and g++? Yes. Think of shedskin like cfront back in the day (the C++ -> C translator which was how C++ got to be). > > > Is the 'examples' directory included in the package when installed? > > > > No. Should it? shedskin-examples is an extra downloadable package on https://shedskin.github.io/ so probably not.