Hi John, Thanks for taking the time to chime in, much appreciated!
> https://gitlab.com/podiki/guix-pod/-/blob/main/taffybar.scm I took a look at your repo and found that our definition of ghc-gi-gdk is almost exactly the same (sans some historical differences (eg, using gtk (v4) vs gtk+)). > On the gobject-introspection front, I do remember needing some tinkering > there for cairo, and ended up using what was suggested here: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49122#4 Interesting! Sadly I rediscovered this and provided a very similar solution in the first message of this bug report (with the help of a similar issue in nix). imho we should adjust the goject-introspection package to include working cairo typelib files. > Checking now taffybar does not build (some dependent package failing, > looks like needs an input change) but ghc-gi-gdk does. This should be > the bulk of the work you need beyond polishing (linting, license checks, > all that). It is a lot of packages, many are the autogenerated > haskell-gi packages as I'm sure you are familiar. I'll take a closer look this evening whether or not there is some other difference that could be causing the reported build failure. > but hopefully this is helpful Definitely useful insight, thanks again John! > Let me know if you need help parsing this early and rough packaging I > did, though I think it shouldn't take much to get it to build again > (famous last words, I know). I don't foresee any issues with understanding whats going on (similarly, famous last works 😉) but if I have any questions I'll let you know in this thread. On 05 Apr 2023 at 19:55, John Kehayias <john.kehay...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hi Collin and Josselin, > > I haven't fully read this thread but wanted to chime in with work I did > but never finalized to upstream here. In short, I did get taffybar to > build and run if I recall. There was a lot of fussing with versions, > some Haskell packages that were broken/undergoing some breaking changes > at the time...I don't remember the details, sorry. > > https://gitlab.com/podiki/guix-pod/-/blob/main/taffybar.scm > > Checking now taffybar does not build (some dependent package failing, > looks like needs an input change) but ghc-gi-gdk does. This should be > the bulk of the work you need beyond polishing (linting, license checks, > all that). It is a lot of packages, many are the autogenerated > haskell-gi packages as I'm sure you are familiar. > > On the gobject-introspection front, I do remember needing some tinkering > there for cairo, and ended up using what was suggested here: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49122#4 > > I haven't used Taffybar much since I went back to my lisp land (StumpWM) > but hopefully this is helpful. Some Haskell experts can chime in with > other details or polishing once it builds. > > Let me know if you need help parsing this early and rough packaging I > did, though I think it shouldn't take much to get it to build again > (famous last words, I know). > > John -- Collin J. Doering http://rekahsoft.ca http://blog.rekahsoft.ca http://git.rekahsoft.ca
