Good day.

> > I just changed the logic to always keep a dot after MAJOR, and then
> > use hyphens after that.
> I'm not quite sure if I agree with that decision, but you're right that
> @MAJOR ought to be supported.  How about enforcing that MINOR exists if
> REVISION and COMMIT are used and setting it to "0" if there hasn't been
> an "a" beta or release yet?

Interesting idea. How about just always forcing a MINOR part, setting to "0" if
upstream doesn't have one?

> > +   (native-inputs `(("clang-toolchain" ,clang-toolchain)))
> > +   (inputs (cons* `("libedit" ,libedit)
> > +                  `("libomp" ,libomp)
> > +                  `("ijconsole" ,(ijconsole))
> > +                  extra-inputs))
> My variant already had these translated to the new style.  If you're
> not using old style on purpose – and I don't think you do – you might
> want to make your life easier by dropping these labels and going with
> plain (list)s.

Yeah, I had trouble getting that to work nicely with the ijconsole input. See
below for more details.

> You might want to use an aux-file for that.  Name it
> jsoftware/profile.ijs if it's just a plain file (which I assume).  I
> recently pushed a commit towards renpy which replaces a large format
> block by fetching an auxiliary file and substitute*, which you can take
> as reference if you're unsure.  Note that renpy still uses old-style
> inputs, so the assoc-ref makes sense in that case; however, you should
> be able to also express this pattern in terms of search-input-file
> somehow (or otherwise express it as gexp).

Oooh. Neat. That makes adding and testing changes their much nicer.

Note, I wasn't able to find a nice way to get this working together with the
new inputs syntax, since `search-input-files' only searches under input paths
which are directories.

The ijconsole and profilex input are regular files, so it raises a search-error.
One workaronud is to put ijconsole and profilex together under a file-union
input, but I found that almost worse than just using old-style syntax.

If you have a better idea, I am all ears.


Cheers!