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Subject: Re: Add guile-minikanren
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:10:03 +0200
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Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:

> On 2015-04-23 13:57, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>>>>> +    (source (origin
>>>>> +              (method git-fetch)
>>>>> +              (uri (git-reference
>>>>> +                    (url "https://github.com/ijp/minikanren.git")
>>>>> +                    (commit
>>>>> "10d507785eab30b0f8b47bf8bb37d880731fc031")))
>>>>
>>>> Is there no tarball? If possiblem we would prefer this.
>>>
>>> No tarball.  I would recommend that the first 7 characters of the
>>> commit SHA be used as the package version, and this string here could
>>> just be replaced with 'version'.
>>
>> Maybe make the version (string-append "0-" commit) so we can eventually
>> increment that zero to make upgrades work, as Andreas notes?
>> (I think upstream minikanren is frozen anyway.)
>
> Why not use YYYYMMDD.<7-char-sha> so that the version is less
> arbitrary? It would still sort for upgrades.

Fine with me!

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