[bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> It won’t work when it’s in the store because we cannot write to the
>> store.  Even after copying it out of the store and changing permissions
>> it would simply crash.  This could be a problem with my Libreboot
>> machine, but the first problem is bad enough.
>>
>> If the software cannot be used when it is installed to the store then I
>> don’t think it should be in the store at all.  I think we should drop
>> this patch as the package is not actually usable.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> The alternative is to also install a wrapper script to “bin” that
> essentially does this:
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>     qemu-system-i386 -snapshot -boot a -fda $prefix/share/colorforth/cf2012.img
>
> It still crashes for me but at least it doesn’t complain about store
> permissions.  If you can get this to run on your computer then please
> send a final patch that incorporates all of these suggestions.
> Otherwise I think it may not be worth spending more time on a toy
> package like this.
>
> What do you think?

FWIW here’s the latest version of the diff:

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diff --git a/gnu/packages/forth.scm b/gnu/packages/forth.scm
index 6d66faf5d..4ab8f20a9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/forth.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/forth.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <ng0@no-reply.pragmatique.xyz>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Sou Bunnbu <iyzsong@gmail.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@
   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
   #:use-module (guix packages)
   #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages assembly)
   #:use-module (gnu packages m4))
 
 (define-public gforth
@@ -58,3 +60,42 @@ and history.  A generic virtual machine environment, vmgen, is also
 included.")
     (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
+
+(define-public colorforth
+  (let ((commit "b518ff966955f0b196e7bb8f85337284fa23e29e")
+        (revision "1"))
+    (package
+      (name "colorforth")
+      (version (string-append "0.0.0-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
+      (source (origin
+                (method git-fetch)
+                (uri (git-reference
+                      (url "https://github.com/narke/colorForth.git")
+                      (commit commit)))
+                (sha256
+                 (base32
+                  "1q5szb9yi3nspbvnq0js6w24sb936ahjk828il760p0xpj5dsl45"))))
+      (arguments
+       `(#:tests? #f
+         #:phases
+         (modify-phases %standard-phases
+           (delete 'configure)          ; No configure script
+           (replace 'install            ; No install target
+             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+               (install-file "cf2012.img"
+                             (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
+                                            "/share/colorforth/"))
+               #t)))))
+      (native-inputs
+       `(("nasm" ,nasm)))
+      (build-system gnu-build-system)
+      (home-page "https://github.com/narke/colorForth")
+      (synopsis "Native 32-bit colorForth for PCs, Bochs and Qemu")
+      (description
+       "Colorforth is a @code{colorForth} implementation written in x86
+assembly.  It is a dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctation,
+includes its own operating system and produces extremely compact programs.
+Applications compile from pre-parsed source.  Colorforth applications can be
+run using @code{Bochs} and @code{Qemu}.  It is adapted from
+@url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/colorforth, colorforth}.")
+      (license license:public-domain))))
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