2018-02-14 14:49 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: > Hi Gábor, > > Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > 2018-02-11 22:50 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>: > > > >> > >> Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > It seems, that currently we don't have zip in gnu build system, so > that > >> > ends up in native-inputs, if we need that to unpack the tarball. > >> > > >> > It would be nice if gnu-build-system would use the appropriate > >> compressor, > >> > and at the same time only depend on the one needed. How could this be > >> > achieved? > >> > >> Why is this necessary? I don’t see a problem with adding “unzip” to the > >> native-inputs when it is needed to unpack a zip archive. > >> > >> In my opinion this is so easy that I don’t think the slight increase in > >> convenience would be worth the change. > >> > >> > > You might be right about that. What I feel is that: > > 1. this is a recurring newbie question on the irc channel, I've seen it > > already a few times, so support time could be reduced > > 2. this change could make adding new archive types easier in the future. > > FWIW I pretty much agree with Ricardo here. I understand your concerns, > yet it seems to me that this is a minor annoyance (zip archives for > source code are not that frequent anyway), new archive types for source > code don’t show up that often either, and overall I’m wary of > “over-engineering” things like this. > > Ok, fine, I take this proposal back.
> Ludo’. >
