Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

2014-11-01 Thread David Thompson
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello! > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 11:48:46AM -0400, David Thompson wrote: >> +(uri (string-append >> "mirror://sourceforge/freeimage/Source%20Distribution/" >> +version "/FreeImage" >> +(string-jo

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello! On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 11:48:46AM -0400, David Thompson wrote: > +(uri (string-append > "mirror://sourceforge/freeimage/Source%20Distribution/" > +version "/FreeImage" > +(string-join (string-split version #\.) ""

[PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

2014-11-01 Thread David Thompson
This patch adds the freeimage library. It's a handy way to load images of various formats via a single interface. How does it look? >From 908cad8230ecc89dbf36ab54c0687879e4cf9b22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Thompson Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:50:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeim

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Add a name/version/synopsis heading in package-info buffers

2014-11-01 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2014-10-31 02:20 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> OK, I'm attaching a patch. Is “Co-authored-by …” enough or should you >> be credited in some other way? > > It’s enough. > >>> I’m thinking perhaps we should do something similar for the description >>> itself, like displa

Re: Font package naming convention

2014-11-01 Thread Alex Kost
Andreas Enge (2014-11-01 12:45 +0300) wrote: > Alex, > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:36:30PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> I think the majority should decide. So if the most of guix people think >> that it should be named "bar", then let it be so. > > for this we would need an "infrastructure": a soc

Re: Update sqlite

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 07:20:10PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I got the patch from upstream, but they didn't want to apply it to their > stable branch. I'm not sure whether the latest release is part of that > same branch or not. For that matter, I never checked to see if they > applied it to

Re: Different versions of a package in the same profile?

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:07:14AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Technically it would be easy to allow the installation of different > versions of a package in the same profile, but I wonder about the > implications. > > For instance, ‘-u foo’ would upgrade all the installed versions of > ‘foo’,

Re: Font package naming convention

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:30:24PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Furthermore, unlike software packages, what matters here is the actual > name of the font or font collection, not the “system name” or “tarball > name.” > Here’s a possible answer to the above questions, informally: > • Use ‘font-

Re: Font package naming convention

2014-11-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Alex, On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:36:30PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > I think the majority should decide. So if the most of guix people think > that it should be named "bar", then let it be so. for this we would need an "infrastructure": a social contract, a voting system and what else not, which s

Re: [PATCH] gnu: cross-base: Add libc/hurd.

2014-11-01 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Good morning everyone. 1) I noticed that in the wip-hurd branch, in hurd-minimal there is a problem with the autoconf input. Apply the attached diff first. 2) Run make clean before doing anything and rebuild the wip-hurd. It seems there is a conflict with newer commits. Must rebase on newer commi

Re: Font package naming convention

2014-11-01 Thread Alex Kost
Andreas Enge (2014-10-31 20:58 +0300) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:02:44AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> I'm against any strict binding to an upstream name. Why should we stick >> to a (potentially strange) upstream name if we know better how a package >> should be called? > > This is what w