From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kei Kebreau Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add qscintilla. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:18:45 -0400 Message-ID: <8760psjadm.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <87a8fddnyi.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87r38ndfwb.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160913170529.GD20731@jasmine> <87k2efd6gy.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160913193906.GC31892@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <874m5jcz8w.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160918083656.GA4235@solar> <87wpi9geag.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160918205634.GA11923@jasmine> <20160918210202.GA853@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blyTY-0007ue-Ko for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:19:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blyTS-000216-SB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:19:11 -0400 Received: from smtp4.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.38]:41411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blyTS-00020I-Io for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:19:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160918210202.GA853@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:02:02 +0300") 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" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:56:34PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:10:15PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> > Andreas Enge writes: >> > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:37:35PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> > >> In this case, should I leave qtscintilla-qt4 as a public >> > >> package in qt.scm >> > >> instead of maths.scm as Leo suggested? >> > > >> > > since it is used for only one package and relies on the deprecated q= t@4, >> > > I would leave it private, regardless its name. >> >=20 >> > It seems that there are conflicting opinions here. :) >> > If no one minds, I can support this feature out-of-tree until GNU Octa= ve >> > updates its UI to use Qt 5. >> >=20 >> > Opinions? >>=20 >> I don't think we need to keep it out of tree. >>=20 >> I agree with Andreas that we should discourage use of Qt 4, but I don't >> think we should not use it at all, or else I would have suggested >> removing all Qt 4 related software. >>=20 >> I think that if there is a reason to export the package at this time, we >> should do so. Otherwise, I think we should keep it private. If we need >> to export it later, we can. >>=20 >> Efraim, do you have a use for a Qt 4 variant of qscintilla? > > Nope. To get this right: qscintilla will be defined publicly in qt.scm, qscintilla-qt4 will be defined privately in maths.scm (how do I inherit a package from another module?), and Octave will include qscintilla-qt4 and qt-4 as inputs. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJX3+W2AAoJEOal7jwZRnoNj8MP+wTzhr50KAj+0IXDDDC8CLLo s3W61Xn3YQFRvPvWWl0kC6dL3KWSpy/H5G5MpzxT45WnLnJlmqgJz9ztGhFp8G3T w6lZWk5sFMOB7M0UuJTa9EfCRZn/VD5t6TVrwP8WaSfh5klg6F4/iVPe9n/iq012 S5WE7e+tvuOMhRIHWD+HfiHVXN+5JC6ept147TgZ0y/SMcKnarGk5gqbhVgFVhYL /do/btvV1Ckhrxht0kXU9nE4kC4FCmbMpL4pct5K19m+dqhYwLC8H+8B7ET2ZQ9U WSEkJr+igSzOVLE9t5IMCD35ZJp5sYPdEtQHVyBRBn23FTocBBUU2bUAu+dcrfoP pboKBq7Ruxa0ZbtxS5+5SVy+r40MTVbiNuRy6g6EBvi3BLZnqrm7xcRrRoWabX+S 2529D6N3teh1u9NXtz1fAcsMKOUNw8zS0XQ77Yoq+QL81GS+PD7Ccsgz2bW+b1yv ykpwBsYx2S1idIrcgU0RxHVpNWk2SvwlsSIaEgSeaZCD5eT8Th/6+SairZoPvN99 aCuDbbU++/DZaF0mFYsoP7fKI8zTuu798OwGQUF6huzKB9vd6vT5n1HMtaWTyCnh WfTzEAXECVTMpGjqaiufvZkAWAPUmqU4Do0LBOu/+6KObHGrasHRAOsYaOoKaqwj 7fsCSRgzaxkw/yyuN4lE =iw2f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--