From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:22:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oaapx2kd.fsf@grrlz.net> <87twkh81r0.fsf@grrlz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLLB-0004Jb-M7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:22:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLL7-0000rs-LX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:22:37 -0500 Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.30]:35151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLL7-0000rK-Bp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:22:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87twkh81r0.fsf@grrlz.net> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nils Gillmann writes: > I'll ask on gnunet-dev about this, but it might be that we have > to decide wether to default to some svn of gnunet, as 0.10.1 is > really old. Stable, but old.. Which possibly could affect the > experience for people who try to use gnunet now, before any > applications like secushare are running on it. plus you need -svn > if you want to hack on or testrun application which develop on > top of / inside gnunet. > > Guix should provide a stable experience, but if stable means too > old to deliver a useable experience of an still in development > network, what do we suggest? I would not replace gnunet and > gnunet-gtk, I would just make gnunet-svn the default (gnunet will > default to gnunet-svn) and gnunet-0.10.1 will have to be > installed explicitly. > There are only a few open bugs until the next GNUnet release will > be done, but 0.10.1 is just terribly old. The reply to my bug report said something similar. If version 0.10.1 is so old that upstream suggest taking the latest from SVN I suppose we should do this too. I do hope there will be a new release soon, though, as I don=E2=80=99t li= ke to use some arbitrary SVN checkout. ~~ Ricardo