Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>>> + ;; FIXME: The following inputs are downloaded from upstream to
>>> allow us
>>> + ;; to use the lightweight Julia release tarball. Ideally, these
>>> inputs
>>> + ;; would eventually be replaced with proper Guix packages.
>>> + ("rmath-julia"
>>> + ,(origin
>>> + (method url-fetch)
>>> + (uri
>>> "https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/Rmath-julia/tarball/v0.1";)
>>> + ;;(file-name "rmath-julia-0.1.tar.gz")
>> ^^^
>> did this not like being renamed?
>
> Oops, this was not supposed to be commented. There was a problem where
> the build system complained about the hash of the tarball, and I could
> only fix it by *not* overriding the name. But this shouldn’t have been
> part of the commit. I’ll play with this again to see if it can stay or
> needs to go.
>
>>> + (sha256
>>> + (base32
>>> + "0ai5dhjc43zcvangz123ryxmlbm51s21rg13bllwyn98w67arhb4"))))
>>> + ("suitesparse"
>>> + ,(origin
>>> + (method url-fetch)
>>> + (uri
>>> "http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.4.2.tar.gz";)
>>> + (sha256
>>> + (base32
>>> + "1dg0qsv07n71nbn9cgcvn73933rgy1jnxw5bfqkwfq3bidk44cqc"))))
>>> + ("objconv"
>>> + ,(origin
>>> + (method url-fetch)
>>> + (uri "http://www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip";)
>>> + (sha256
>>> + (base32
>>> + "1fi7qa2sd9vb35dvkgripjf0fayzg2qmff215f8agfqfiwd1g8qs"))))
>>> + ("dsfmt"
>>> + ,(origin
>>> + (method url-fetch)
>>> + (uri (string-append
>>> + "http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/";
>>> + "SFMT/dSFMT-src-2.2.3.tar.gz"))
>>> + (sha256
>>> + (base32
>>> + "03kaqbjbi6viz0n33dk5jlf6ayxqlsq4804n7kwkndiga9s4hd42"))))
>>> + ("virtualenv"
>>
>> we actually do have virtualenv packaged. I forgot when but at some point
>> they made a massive jump in version numbers.
>
> Yes, I’ve seen that we have it, but it looks like julia doesn’t make it
> easy to use our packaged version (and it insists on this old version).
> We should fix this eventually, but the goal of this patch was to make
> this dependency explicit — before that it would just quietly take the
> bundled “virtualenv” in the fat tarball.
This patch LGTM, but I agree that eventually it’d be nice if Julia could
use the packaged versions of these things, at least SuiteSparse and
virtualenv, but probably all of them.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
