Zotero Packaging Request

Zotero Packaging Request

[Raghav Gururajan]

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Hello Guix!

Can anyone package Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) into Guix? It is a powerful reference management software that is being used in academia, literature and journalism. This packaging will be useful for many users. Kindly consider.

Please and Thank you!

Regards,
RG.

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Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi!

This does not seem too hard.  Anyone?
If no one gets to it within a week, I'll do it.
Please ping me.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hi Pierre!

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Regards,
RG.

March 25, 2019 7:21 PM, "Pierre Neidhardt" <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This does not seem too hard. Anyone?
> If no one gets to it within a week, I'll do it.
> Please ping me.
> 
> -- 
> Pierre Neidhardt
> https://ambrevar.xyz

Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Raghav,

"Raghav Gururajan" <rvgn@disroot.org> skribis:

> Can anyone package Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) into Guix? It is a
> powerful reference management software that is being used in academia,
> literature and journalism. This packaging will be useful for many
> users. Kindly consider.

As you know Guix is driven by volunteers who choose to donate their time
to this collaborative effort and to work with one another.  I would
kindly invite you to join us, this is a great opportunity!

If you’re already using Guix, getting into the position of a packager
should not be too difficult.  Pierre wrote a tutorial that should help
you get started:

  https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/

along with the reference manual:

  https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html

People on IRC and on the help-guix mailing list will happily provide
guidance.

Ludo’.

Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hello Ludo!

Thanks for the information. Sure, I will definitely try packaging some apps. I needed to ask someone this time as I preoccupied with writing a book and planning to be published under GNU Press. It's involves free software and guix. So it would be helpful if someone could cover for this time.

Regards,
RG.

March 27, 2019 2:31 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Raghav,
> 
> "Raghav Gururajan" <rvgn@disroot.org> skribis:
> 
>> Can anyone package Zotero (https://www.zotero.org) into Guix? It is a
>> powerful reference management software that is being used in academia,
>> literature and journalism. This packaging will be useful for many
>> users. Kindly consider.
> 
> As you know Guix is driven by volunteers who choose to donate their time
> to this collaborative effort and to work with one another. I would
> kindly invite you to join us, this is a great opportunity!
> 
> If you’re already using Guix, getting into the position of a packager
> should not be too difficult. Pierre wrote a tutorial that should help
> you get started:
> 
> https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix
> 
> along with the reference manual:
> 
> https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html
> 
> People on IRC and on the help-guix mailing list will happily provide
> guidance.
> 
> Ludo’.

Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi Raghav,

I'm very sorry, I looked a little too fast (did I look at the wrong
program? :p), and Zotero is actually the very opposite of what it
thought, it's a hard one.

It turns out that Zotero needs... NodeJS (!) and XULrunner (!!!).

As long as Guix won't have a recursive importer for NodeJS, it will be
a big hassle to package Zotero.

Besides, isn't XULrunner deprecated?

More details there:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client

Sorry, I'm out :(

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[mikadoZero]

Raghav given Pierre's assessment I just wanted to suggest some potential
Zotero alternatives.

They would require using a document compiler like latex, groff or
pandoc.  I do not know if the following have the feature set that you
are looking for.  I have not used these myself but they would be what I
would look at using if I needed to create citations or bibliographies.

For use with latex:
* biber
* texlive-bibtex

For use with pandoc:
* ghc-pandoc-citeproc

For use with emacs/org:
* emacs-biblio
* emacs-org-ref

I do not know if `refer` is included in the `groff` packaged.

As an aside it is interesting to see that `emacs-zotxt` is packaged.


Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> Hi Raghav,
>
> I'm very sorry, I looked a little too fast (did I look at the wrong
> program? :p), and Zotero is actually the very opposite of what it
> thought, it's a hard one.
>
> It turns out that Zotero needs... NodeJS (!) and XULrunner (!!!).
>
> As long as Guix won't have a recursive importer for NodeJS, it will be
> a big hassle to package Zotero.
>
> Besides, isn't XULrunner deprecated?
>
> More details there:
> https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client
>
> Sorry, I'm out :(

Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[Raghav Gururajan]

Pierre!

Ah! That's okay. Thanks for trying. I just found out Zotero in Flatpak (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.zotero.Zotero).

Regards,
RG.

March 30, 2019 12:45 PM, "Pierre Neidhardt" <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> Hi Raghav,
> 
> I'm very sorry, I looked a little too fast (did I look at the wrong
> program? :p), and Zotero is actually the very opposite of what it
> thought, it's a hard one.
> 
> It turns out that Zotero needs... NodeJS (!) and XULrunner (!!!).
> 
> As long as Guix won't have a recursive importer for NodeJS, it will be
> a big hassle to package Zotero.
> 
> Besides, isn't XULrunner deprecated?
> 
> More details there:
> https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client
> 
> Sorry, I'm out :(
> 
> -- 
> Pierre Neidhardt
> https://ambrevar.xyz