From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: Add guile-minikanren Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:48:50 -0500 Message-ID: <5683758a81dab8c8c4a07b4b76944938@openmailbox.org> References: <87wq14dwd9.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20150423131751.GA12941@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> <87d22uekq5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlN7M-0004EN-Sj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:49:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlN7J-0007OR-Nz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:49:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d22uekq5.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel On 2015-04-23 13:57, ludo@gnu.org wrote: >>>> + (source (origin >>>> + (method git-fetch) >>>> + (uri (git-reference >>>> + (url "https://github.com/ijp/minikanren.git") >>>> + (commit >>>> "10d507785eab30b0f8b47bf8bb37d880731fc031"))) >>> >>> Is there no tarball? If possiblem we would prefer this. >> >> No tarball. I would recommend that the first 7 characters of the >> commit SHA be used as the package version, and this string here could >> just be replaced with 'version'. > > Maybe make the version (string-append "0-" commit) so we can eventually > increment that zero to make upgrades work, as Andreas notes? > (I think upstream minikanren is frozen anyway.) Why not use YYYYMMDD.<7-char-sha> so that the version is less arbitrary? It would still sort for upgrades. Sounds like another set of conventions to document in the manual ;) -- `~Eric