Re: Continuing the work on the recipes related to GNU Ring

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

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Hi Adonay!

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Hi all! :)
>
> I bring you a request: We might need "real" developers working on this
> --- because I don't know how to make programs in the languages being
> used by upstreams. Also, I'm somewhat "up to my ears" on study paperwork
> now. :)
>
> I have attached an improved set of recipes (in one .scm file, still not
> a patch), that take suggestions from
> [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ring/2017-03/msg00007.html]] ---
> the list archive item doesn't show it, but someone replied privately to
> me saying that msgpack must be made with "C++11" set.
>
> Here is the notes that I have made so far:
>
> - I did not test the changes I made yet, but I plan to once I can
>   upgrade my packages installed through Guix.
>
> - Updated commit of ring-project.tar.gz still has lots of patches that
>   are applied to their upstream. The attached set of recipes, however,
>   doesn't have the updated version yet (due to lack of my time).
>
>   - Also, I just tried contacting pjsip/pjproject on an old issue that
>     relates to the "gnutls" patch:
>     [[http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2017-April/019937.html]].
>
> - For the detailed questions of which license the patched *result*
>   should have, I recommend you to talk to ssalenick and dkc in #ring
>   channel at chat.freenode.net, because I already talked with them
>   briefely. Also, if they don't remember, tell them that they were
>   discussing this with "adfeno".
>
> - Other notes are in the .scm file.

Interesting coincidence! I was looking into GNU Ring as of last weekend
and would be interested in getting it packaged. There's still 2 things I
want to finish being free to work on it, so I might get around it in a
week or so.

If no one else volunteers, I can take it!

Maxim

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