Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add psyclpc.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com> writes:
>
>> * gnu/packages/psyc.scm (psyclpc): New variable.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/psyc.scm | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/psyc.scm b/gnu/packages/psyc.scm
>
> As before, please add this to “messaging”.

Okay. I will move the already added module psyc.scm in master to
messaging then. It's not exclusive messaging, but I don't really
care where it ends up. psyc.scm was just a suggestion I made
(which can be read in the very first message for this patch set).

>> +
>> +;; This commit removes the historic bundled pcre, not released as a tarball so far.
>> +(define-public psyclpc
>> +  (let* ((commit "8bd51f2a4847860ba8b82dc79348ab37d516011e")
>> +         (revision "1"))
>
> Okay.
>
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "psyclpc")
>> +    (version (string-append "20160821-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
>> +    (source (origin
>> +              (method git-fetch)
>> +              (uri (git-reference
>> +                    (url "git://git.psyced.org/git/psyclpc")
>> +                    (commit commit)))
>> +              (sha256
>> +               (base32
>> +                "10w4kx9ygcv1lcmd7j4knvjiy8dac1y3hjfv3lhp67jpv6w3iagz"))))
>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>> +    (arguments
>> +     `(#:tests? #f ; There are no tests/checks.
>> +       #:configure-flags
>> +       ;; If you have questions about this part, look at
>> +       ;; "src/settings/psyced" and the ebuild.
>
> Please don’t do this.  Guix is not a derivative of Gentoo.  This should
> be explained right here.
>
>> +       (list
>> +        "--enable-use-tls=yes"
>> +        "--enable-use-mccp" ; Mud Client Compression Protocol, leave this enabled.
>> +        (string-append "--prefix="
>> +                       (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
>> +        ;; src/Makefile: Set MUD_LIB to the directory which contains
>> +        ;; the mud data. defaults to MUD_LIB = @libdir@
>> +        (string-append "--libdir="
>> +                       (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
>> +                       "/opt/psyced/world")
>> +        (string-append "--bindir="
>> +                       (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
>> +                       "/opt/psyced/bin")
>> +        ;; src/Makefile: Set ERQ_DIR to directory which contains the
>> +        ;; stuff which ERQ can execute (hopefully) savely.  Was formerly
>> +        ;; defined in config.h. defaults to ERQ_DIR= @libexecdir@
>> +        (string-append "--libexecdir="
>> +                       (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
>> +                       "/opt/psyced/run"))
>
> I don’t think it’s wise to override the target directories to have a
> prefix of “/opt/psyced”.  We already have a prefix:
> “/gnu/store/<hash>-<name>-<version>/”.  If this is needed at runtime for
> some reason it should be done by a service.
>
>> +       #:phases
>> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> +         (add-before 'configure 'chdir-to-src
>> +           ;; We need to pass this as env variables
>> +           ;; and manually change the directory.
>
> What is “this”?
>
>> +           (lambda _
>> +             (chdir "src")
>> +             (setenv "CONFIG_SHELL" (which "sh"))
>> +             (setenv "SHELL" (which "sh")))))
>
> CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL are usually set for autoconf.  Why does this not
> work in this case?
>
> Please end the phase with #t.
>
>> +       #:make-flags (list "install-all")))
>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("zlib" ,zlib)
>> +       ("openssl" ,openssl)
>> +       ("pcre" ,pcre)))
>> +    (native-inputs
>> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>> +       ("bison" ,bison)
>> +       ("gnu-gettext" ,gnu-gettext)
>> +       ("help2man" ,help2man)
>> +       ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
>> +       ("automake" ,automake)))
>> +    (home-page "http://lpc.psyc.eu/")
>> +    (synopsis "psycLPC is a multi-user network server programming
>> language")
>
> s/psycLPC is a//
>
>> +    (description
>> +     "LPC is a bytecode language, invented to specifically implement
>> +multi user virtual environments on the internet.  This technology is used for
>> +MUDs and also the psyced implementation of the Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing (PSYC).  psycLPC is a fork of LDMud with some new features and
>> +many bug fixes.")
>
> Please fix the line lengths.

As far as I know you picked an old thread and I fixed this in a
newer one. If I'm wrong about this, there'll be a new thread
soon enough.

>> +    (license license:gpl2))))
>
> GPLv2 only?

Yes, but since 2010 there's also a different license, as this was
originally up to someone else to review, I'll add again: I have
to send in a new patch revisision. psyclpc also needs a fix for
reproducibility which I will pass on directly to one of us with
push access. After psyclpc is fixed at our end, I will send new
versions to guix.

>
> ~~ Ricardo
>

Thanks for review