From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Hill Subject: Re: next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox) Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 16:23:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87wowlg3vu.fsf@lassieur.org> <20180503050020.ljaqgrop6uwy24op@abyayala> <87muxhfhqq.fsf@gmail.com> <876044lsci.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEKl3-0005bd-6D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 16:23:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEKkz-000636-TB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 16:23:17 -0400 Received: from mccarthy.hcoop.net ([69.90.123.73]:38497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEKkz-00062l-P5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 16:23:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <876044lsci.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, 3 May 2018, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Thank you very much for reaching out to me, Jack! You're welcome. > I will start working on it in the upcoming days. Great. > I'm starting to get there regarding Guix package declarations. I've > still got to learn more about Common Lisp packaging though. Me too. What I learned was from reading other package definitions. It did seem to me that we would need to use git versions of some of the dependencies rather than releases which slightly complicated things for a first time packager. I also wasn't sure what to do about supporting multiple CL implementations. I was planning to stick with just SBCL to start. I wonder if a quicklisp or similar CL package archive importer would make sense and be useful. > Let's keep in touch! Agreed. I'll be here and jackhill on #guix Jack