From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add allegro-5.0. Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:52:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb00zwib.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160719205719.20769-1-rekado@elephly.net> <20160719205719.20769-2-rekado@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPkRF-0002ib-54 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:52:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPkR9-00056n-Vh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:52:57 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPkR9-00056g-ND for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:52:51 -0400 In-reply-to: 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" To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel Thompson, David writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> * gnu/packages/game-development.scm (allegro-5.0): New variable. > > I assume you have a use-case that calls for keeping multiple versions > of Allegro 5 around? Looks fine to me, if so. Allegro 5.2 merges the unstable with the stable branch. It breaks API and requires applications to define “ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE” to use unstable features. Allegro 5.0.11 is the last of the stable releases and the last to use the pkg-config identifier “allegro-5.0”, which some applications look for. I’m not sure if this is enough to justify keeping 5.0 or if we should patch the configure scripts of applications that look for “allegro-5.0”. ~~ Ricardo