bug#51643: Packaging request: element-desktop

bug#51643: Packaging request: element-desktop

[Jacob Hrbek]

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bug#51643: (no subject)

[jgart]

Hi Jacob,

This one will likely be impossible to package for guix until we find a way to deal with js deps better.

Even nix has trouble packaging element-desktop properly:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/112946

Here are some options for matrix clients that would be more viable to get into guix:

http://issues.guix.gnu.org/51520 (weechat matrix)

gomuks:

https://github.com/tulir/gomuks

fractal:

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/fractal/

matrix-commander:

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrix-commander/

Would you like to work on any of them?

I'd be happy to help out in this effort.

all best,

jgart

bug#51643: (no subject)

[jgart]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2021 02:04:39 -0500 jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:
> matrix-commander:
> 
> https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrix-commander/

This one is blocked for now because we don't have a way to build and package python projects with pyproject build system.

We'd have to package nio which requires it.