From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 09:09:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20180404090923.f2e6y7kyhj3srr52@abyayala> References: <20180403154921.54d270f6@alma-ubu> <20180403164841.zufdw64rxcgb6xic@abyayala> <87tvsscdqe.fsf@netris.org> <20180403192352.5zpe5oubs23q3jvd@abyayala> <877epocbvw.fsf@netris.org> <20180403200223.ezezyxrzeeudjrzx@abyayala> <20180403233725.6bd95947@alma-ubu> <87a7ujgykd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3ePo-0002Qq-1N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 05:09:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3ePi-00029S-DW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 05:09:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a7ujgykd.fsf@gnu.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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel , Nils Gillmann Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes: > Hello, > > Björn Höfling skribis: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:02:23 +0000 > > Nils Gillmann wrote: > > > >> The patches would apply nowhere then, I'm sending a tarball of the > >> work. You can ignore the AGPL3 header, it's my default and for what I > >> upstream I relicense. > >> > >> This is Thunderbird 52.6.0, I fear that version newer than 54.x will > >> have the same problem I'm debugging in newer Firefox now with > >> mandatory rust. > >> > >> Headsup: The package is wip'ish and generally very ugly in code. > > > > Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate that you published this in > > WIP-state. I just scrolled through the .scm-definition and be impressed > > of the length. Will look into the details later. > > Maybe one of you can post the current patch to guix-patches and people > can then work from there? (There’s already a few WIP patches at > https://bugs.gnu.org/guix-patches and I think it’s a fine way to let > people know that you’ve started working on something but that more work > is needed.) > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > As far as I understood Mark's reply, Mark will work on this and there's no need for my work. For different purposes I'll continue with mine (opt-in optionals somewhere else). Working the coming (54.x version) rust problems with Mozilla based software will be for the benefit of Guix too, so I hope I can tell you how to get past the obstacles created by this.