From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Jellyfish. Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:43:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87oadkrbb8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9507d13e837c22beb6e5a79cce045222@openmailbox.org> <567495E3.5010803@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAmh9-0000EN-OO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:43:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAmh4-00075G-P5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:43:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <567495E3.5010803@uq.edu.au> (Ben Woodcroft's message of "Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:25:23 +1000") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ben Woodcroft Cc: Guix-devel Ben Woodcroft skribis: > But would it be possible to include the scripting language bindings, > something along these lines? > > + (arguments > + `(#:configure-flags '("--enable-ruby-binding" > + "--enable-python-binding" > + "--enable-perl-binding") There=E2=80=99s the usual space/popularity tradeoff to take into account: a= dding them all makes the package=E2=80=99s closure much larger, so it=E2=80=99s i= mportant to add only the useful bindings by default. Ideally, the .so for these bindings could be moved to separate outputs (like we did for the =E2=80=9Ctk=E2=80=9D output of Python), but it=E2=80= =99s not always easy to do. > I did find the time to confirm that the most important part of this > program works though: Nice. :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.