Re: [PATCH 3/5] build: Add 'emacs-build-system'

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> So I suggest to add a phase for deleting non-".el[c]" files from the
> ".guix.d/package" directory.

Agreed; what about putting READMEs etc. elsewhere, like under
‘share/doc/PACKAGE’ if we want to preserve them?

> And just in case: I have nothing against GNU ELPA repository (especially
> taking into account that it is the only "home" for some packages).  I'm
> against melpa and melpa-stable, because:
>
> - Why should we rely on a third-party server that do something with the
>   upstream files to produce a final tarball?
>
> - MELPA(-stable) is not usable anyway, because the tarballs of the same
>   version are updated all the time, so the hash is being permanently
>   changed.

I agree that these two points make MELPA (at least the MELPA server)
unsuitable for our purposes.

Of course it’s still useful to import recipes from there and use them as
a starting point for packages.

> However, if a package from ELPA has a real upstream release that can be
> used with "gnu-build-system" (e.g., emms, auctex, mmm-mode), I think we
> should prefer it instead of importing it from ELPA.

Agreed.

Thanks,
Ludo’.