From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Patterson Subject: Re: next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox) Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 23:36:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20180503233604.69fd089c@uwaterloo.ca> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87wowlg3vu.fsf@lassieur.org> <20180503050020.ljaqgrop6uwy24op@abyayala> <87muxhfhqq.fsf@gmail.com> <876044lsci.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:55843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fESTP-0002qf-HP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 00:37:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fESTK-0000Ie-Kd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 00:37:35 -0400 Received: from mailchk-m04.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.128.236]:53404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fESTK-0000GL-4F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 00:37:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: Jack Hill Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Jack, On Thu, 3 May 2018 16:23:12 -0400 (EDT) Jack Hill wrote: [...] > Me too. What I learned was from reading other package definitions. It > did seem to me that we would need to use git versions of some of the > dependencies rather than releases which slightly complicated things > for a first time packager. I also wasn't sure what to do about > supporting multiple CL implementations. I was planning to stick with > just SBCL to start. I took a look at your package definition and I wanted to let you know that I have a working package for cffi on sbcl locally. I'll try to get it submitted this weekend along with some changes to the asdf build system that I've been working on. > > I wonder if a quicklisp or similar CL package archive importer would > make sense and be useful. This is what I've wanted to write for a while but never got around to. Maybe I'll have a go at it again soon. Thanks, -- Andy