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Subject: Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:56:28 +0800
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> tumashu <tumashu@163.com> skribis:
>
>> Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot and let guile-emacs inherit it,=
 The reason is that
>> user can use it build emacs from emacs.git conveniently=EF=BC=8C for exa=
mple:
>>
>>     guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=3D./emacs-snapshot-20151111.=
tar.gz
>
> To use --with-source, all you need to do is to rename the tarball to
> =E2=80=98emacs-20151111.tar.gz=E2=80=99; after that, you can run:
>
>   guix build emacs --with-source=3Demacs-20151111.tar.gz
>
> That=E2=80=99s because --with-source expects the tarball name to match the
> package name (info "(guix) Invoking guix build").

I don't think it is a flexible way, i like the below:

    guix build emacs --with-source=3D~/my-own-emacs-dir --override-name=3De=
macs --override-version=3D20151111

>
> Now, it might make sense to also provide an =E2=80=98emacs-snapshot=E2=80=
=99 package,
> built from a Git checkout and regularly updated.  Would you like to try
> that?
>
> I think the package would simply inherit from =E2=80=98guile-emacs=E2=80=
=99 and provide
> a different =E2=80=98name=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98version=E2=80=99, and =E2=80=
=98source=E2=80=99.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo=E2=80=99.

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