Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-pypump

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:17:57PM -0700, Dylan Jeffers wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:41:28 -0400
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:07:11PM -0700, Dylan Jeffers wrote:
> > > > The latest upstream version 0.7. Is there a reason not to use the
> > > > latest version in this case?  
> > > 
> > > For my immediate purposes, I need pypump 0.6, since thats the
> > > version used in my projects. Since the versions are quite
> > > different, maybe we include both of them?  
> > 
> > I think we should package the latest version, at least.
> > 
> > Maybe we could also package 0.6 with a package 'python-pypump-0.6'
> > that inherits from python-pypump. Or, you could keep that inherited
> > python-pypump-0.6 in a private package repo, and use
> > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
> > 
> > I'd prefer the latter option. I don't think we have a precedent of
> > adding old releases, although we do sometimes keep them around for
> > compatibility. But I could be mistaken.
> > 
> > What do people think we should do?
> 
> Yes I agree with the second alternative as well.

Okay, will you send a patch for it?