Re: New importer for GNU packages

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Karl recently suggested that we add a semi-automatic tool to facilitate
> the addition of GNU packages, and Andreas rightfully noted that we
> already have most of the infrastructure for ‘guix refresh’ et al.

Cool!

[snip]
> (package
>   (name "gforth")
>   (version "0.7.3")
>   (source
>     (origin
>       (method url-fetch)
>       (uri (string-append
>              "mirror://gnu/gforth/gforth-"
>              version
>              ".tar.gz"))
>       (sha256
>         (base32
>           "f5rpeiz36armepibzeqlcvlkue7kwfuogi3lcm2svrpj6gcufoya"))))
>   (build-system gnu-build-system)
>   (synopsis "Forth interpreter")
>   (description
>     "Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANSI Forth
> language.  It includes an editing mode for Emacs and an interpreter
> featuring completion and history.  A generic virtual machine
> environment, vmgen, is also included.")
>   (home-page "htmlxref")
>   (license find-by-yourself!))

It's unfortunate that the GNU project doesn't maintain certain metadata
such as the license for each project.  It would be very convenient to
have!

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