From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: qt: monolithic or modular? Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:30:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20160603203032.GA29629@solar> References: <20160405072220.1d828a86@debian-netbook> <20160518121757.GD13276@debian-netbook> <87a8jmw8fo.fsf@gnu.org> <20160519131750.GA8287@debian-netbook> <20160519155515.GA30912@debian-netbook> <87lh35gctz.fsf@gnu.org> <20160527192313.GA3663@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8vjt-000696-9A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:30:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8vjp-0003jV-Uf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:30:41 -0400 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:14193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8vjp-0003iZ-A7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:30:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160527192313.GA3663@solar> 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: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Efraim, as you have noticed, I have created a wip-qt branch, mainly to test building qtbase on mips. I removed the removal of mips; but it turns out that an input is missing anyway. So I think we can include mips for the time being, it does no harm and may serve as a reminder. It also builds on arm, which is a progress compared to our current monolithic qt. So maybe the packages that depend on qt will finally be available on arm again. One thing I did not yet have time to do was to check whether all inputs were referenced in the result; I would have expected that the base package would require less inputs than the whole. After that, I think we can push to master, as the new package is completely independent of the old one, and nothing can break. I think it will serve no purpose to keep the separate wip-qt branch, as each evaluation is quite costly; this one took about 3,5 hours, and I just created the branch since hydra was idle (which will hopefully change with the building of core-updates). My apologies, since your patch did not apply any more, I copied and pasted by hand and forgot to add you as a coauthor. We can correct this on master. What do you think? Andreas