From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Oleg Pykhalov" <go.wigust@gmail.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:46:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muyth0mw.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1txedot.fsf@gmail.com>
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Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Considering the importance of Emacs in this community, I think it would
>>> make sense to provide a cutting-edge version.
>>
>> Do you mean a snapshot of the ‘master’ branch?
>>
>> We don’t do that usually, and I would instead suggest using
>> ‘--with-source’ for people who would like that.
>>
>> What do people think?
>
> In case of ‘emacs’ package recipe, ‘--with-source’ doesn't work for a
> snapshot of the ‘master’ branch.
>
> To build the ‘master’ branch you need to write a new package recipe. I
> think it's not acceptable for a non-contributor in Guix. WDYT?
This sounds like a job for the mythical "channel" facility. In the mean
time, sharing package recipes for sticking in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH like you
did upthread seems like a reasonable workaround.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-27 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-03 0:00 How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Jorge
2018-03-03 10:24 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19 4:13 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-26 18:42 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-27 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 12:24 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 15:33 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-27 17:46 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-03-27 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-28 7:12 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-30 7:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-30 12:13 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-03-30 12:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-30 13:08 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-04-11 15:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 8:29 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12 9:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 12:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-12 13:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-13 5:27 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-13 5:57 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-04-01 14:09 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-04-11 16:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 8:28 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12 8:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-11 15:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 6:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-05 15:53 ` Jorge
2018-04-05 19:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-03 13:46 ` Jorge
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