Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add freealut.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Hi David,

thank you for the patch!

> * gnu/packages/audio.scm (freealut): New variable.
> ---

[...]

>  
> +(define-public freealut
> +  (package
> +    (name "freealut")
> +    (version "1.1.0")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method git-fetch)
> +              (uri (git-reference
> +                    ;; The official repository is defunct. This is the most
> +                    ;; popular mirror.
> +                    (url (string-append "https://github.com/vancegroup/" name))
> +                    (commit version)))

I see that Arch and Fedora both use the tarball from here:

    http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/freealut/freealut-1.1.0.tar.gz/e089b28a0267faabdb6c079ee173664a/freealut-1.1.0.tar.gz

The advantage of that tarball is that it doesn’t require bootstrapping,
so you can do without the additional “autogen” phase and without the
three native inputs.

> +    (home-page "http://www.openal.org/")

Does Freealut itself have a home page?  It doesn’t seem right to me to
declare the website of OpenAL as the home page, when the package is
really just one implemenatation of the standard published on the OpenAL
website.

> +    (synopsis "OpenAL Utility Tool")

Is it a library or a tool (or both)?  What does it do?

> +    (description "Freealut is a free implementation of OpenAL's ALUT
> +standard.")

Could you try to extend the description a little?  I don’t know what
this really means.

~~ Ricardo