From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add lmms Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:20:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20170321192002.GC3826@jasmine> References: <300f50ce07054303ec3afdbaff9f0b73@openmailbox.org> <20170315220333.GA20748@jasmine> <635cca1faad75c7c087346622f9b46c2@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqPKB-0005Wl-Lz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:20:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqPK8-00042R-6x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:20:07 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:54026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqPK8-00042J-3S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:20:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <635cca1faad75c7c087346622f9b46c2@openmailbox.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" To: Rodger Fox Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:54:09PM -0700, Rodger Fox wrote: > > Apparently, LMMS can be built with Qt 5: > > > > https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Compiling-lmms#using-qt5 > > > > Can you try it and let us know how it goes? > > Ok, I looked into this. Qt5 is supported only in the newest development > version of lmms, but what I packaged is the latest stable release. > > I will make a note of this for when I update the package, but what can > we do for the mean time? Accept this as is? Package the release > candidiate? Or just wait for the next stable release of lmms before > adding this to guix? > > To be honest, the RC looks like it has some cool new features, so I > will probably be building it for myself either way. Also, lmms is on > a pretty slow release cycle. The last stable was 2015, RC-1 was > early 2016, and RC-2 was Jan 2017. So maybe if it seems stable enough > when I build it I can package the RC-2. I could do one for each if that > makes sense, kind of like the guile and guile-next packages. > What do you think? lmms and lmms-rc? I think it's fine to package the stable release with qt-4, with a comment in the package definition indicating that we should try qt-5 when upgrading.