From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in>
Cc: 40320@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40320] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libqalculate
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:45:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330124539.79f6568a@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7ae76e80872ed303cbc0c8e8216f56ea7061d8e.1585545646.git.vkor@vkten.in>
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Hi Veera,
thanks for the patch!
I have a few suggestions:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:52:23 +0530
R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in> wrote:
> +(define-public libqalculate
> + (let ((commit "90b52e685c1b0575558c5dd449dde71c313d084a")
> + (revision "1"))
According to github[1], this seems to be the tag "v3.8.0".
> + (version (git-version "3.8.0" revision commit))
... so please just use (version "3.8.0")
> + (commit commit)
... and (commit (string-append "v" version))
> + ("automake" ,automake)
> + ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
It's unusual to need those in a release. Why are they necessary?
> + (arguments
> + `( #:phases
> + (modify-phases %standard-phases
> + (delete 'bootstrap) ;; fails in autogen.sh
> + (add-before 'configure 'autogen
Why not just (replace 'bootstrap
...
) ?
>+ (synopsis "Multi-purpose cli desktop calculator and library")
> + (description
> + "Libqalculate is a multi-purpose cli desktop calculator and library.
> +It provides basic and advanced functionality. Features include customizable
> +functions, unit calculations, and conversions, physical constants, symbolic
> +calculations (including integrals and equations), arbitrary precision,
> +uncertainity propagation, interval arithmetic, plotting and a user-friendly
> +cli.")
Maybe mention that this is the library, not the program.
[1] https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate/releases
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-30 5:22 [bug#40320] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libqalculate R Veera Kumar
2020-03-30 5:27 ` [bug#40320] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add qalculate-gtk R Veera Kumar
2020-03-30 10:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-30 10:45 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2020-03-31 9:12 ` [bug#40320] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libqalculate R Veera Kumar
2020-04-01 5:23 ` [bug#40320] [PATCH v2 " R Veera Kumar
2020-04-01 5:23 ` [bug#40320] [PATCH v2 2/2] gnu: Add qalculate-gtk R Veera Kumar
2020-04-03 13:39 ` bug#40320: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-03 13:37 ` [bug#40320] [PATCH v2 1/2] gnu: Add libqalculate Ludovic Courtès
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