Re: Perl modules

2013-12-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:56:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I would add the ‘perl-’ prefix, unless the package stands alone (for > instance, Hydra would be called ‘hydra’, not ‘perl-hydra’.) Yes, that would be as for python. > For the rest of the name, I would take the Perl module name. S

Re: [PATCH 2/6] gnu: gtk+: enable introspection.

2013-12-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt skribis: > On 12/01/2013 11:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Cyril Roelandt skribis: >> >>> On 11/30/2013 11:01 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Why is gobject-introspection always accompanied by libffi? Should libffi be a propagated input of gobject-introspection? >>> >>> I'

Re: [PATCH 2/6] gnu: gtk+: enable introspection.

2013-12-07 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 12/01/2013 11:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Cyril Roelandt skribis: On 11/30/2013 11:01 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Why is gobject-introspection always accompanied by libffi? Should libffi be a propagated input of gobject-introspection? I've just checked that. Atk, pango (and similar pac

Re: Multiple Versions of Packages?

2013-12-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 12:13:57PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: >> Can we have Texinfo 5 and Texinfo 4 concurrently in guix? > > Yes, without problem. You may add a variable texinfo-4; with a bit of > luck, it can simply inherit from texinfo with a few added modifications

Re: Multiple Versions of Packages?

2013-12-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 12:13:57PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > Can we have Texinfo 5 and Texinfo 4 concurrently in guix? Yes, without problem. You may add a variable texinfo-4; with a bit of luck, it can simply inherit from texinfo with a few added modifications. You may have a look at Qt 4 an

Multiple Versions of Packages?

2013-12-07 Thread John Darrington
I'm trying to package Octave. It seems that it needs Texinfo to build. Furthermore, it does not work with Texinfo 5.2 which is what we have in guix. I looked at patching it, but it would be non-trivial. I suspect there is still quite a bit of software in the wild that does not work with Texi

Re: [PATCH] HACKING

2013-12-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > commit feae92498356789d19883424cc078e8e8827626b > Author: John Darrington > Date: Sun Dec 1 08:28:54 2013 +0100 > > HACKING: Updated advice about possible errors in ./bootstrap process. > > Commit ff1cbb95383b25cf1d6b533c8a046329ee53d1db made errors due