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From: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" <bishmer@scorpionrock.com>
To: andreas@enge.fr
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:00:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EA2C13.7020808@scorpionrock.com> (raw)

> This should be something starting with
>    mirror://sourceforge/
> potentially
>    mirror://sourceforge/dcfldd/dcfldd/1.3.4-1/dcfldd-
> (I always try it out). Maybe you could also string-append once more with
> the version to get rid of the middle "1.3.4.-1" and make updates easier.

Thank you, will fix.

>
> Hm, I wonder about the political question whether as the GNU system, we
> should package forks of GNU software. (The authors are also rather
> suspicious...)

Speaking strictly for myself I find both the progress indicator and the 
speed improvements extremely useful features.

I would also hope we are willing to accept all useful free software, 
regardless of provenance, for inclusion in Guix.

-Bishmer

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-12 15:00 Bishmer J. Sekaran [this message]
2014-08-12 18:27 ` [PATCH] Add dcfldd Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-12 15:07 Bishmer J. Sekaran
2014-08-12 15:22 ` Eric Bavier
2014-08-13  3:34   ` mhw
2014-08-04  3:25 Bishmer J. Sekaran
2014-08-04 12:00 ` Bishmer J. Sekaran
2014-08-06 17:17   ` Andreas Enge
2014-08-11  5:36   ` Mark H Weaver

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