[PATCHv2] lint: add 'source' checker.

2015-01-14 Thread Cyril Roelandt
* guix/scripts/lint.scm (validate-uri?): New procedure. (%checkers): Add 'home-page' checker --- guix/scripts/lint.scm | 102 +- 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/guix/scripts/lint.scm b/guix/scripts/lint.scm index 15a

Re: Invalid nar signature

2015-01-14 Thread David Thompson
Back at this again after awhile. Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hmm, some ideas of things to try: > > 1. Add (force-output port) after (write-file ...). No effect. > 2. Display the value of ‘x’ in ‘restore-file’ at the point where the > exception is raised. Haven't tried this yet. > 2.

Re: ROADMAP in git tree needs to be updated.

2015-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Omar Radwan skribis: > I think we need to rewrite the roadmap from scratch. In place of a road map, here’s my take at a relatively detailed list of things that I think we should have for 1.0 to satisfy a range of use cases, and things that can happen later: * Features scheduled for 1.0 - lar

Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-14 Thread Ian Denhardt
Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: Forwarded message from Donald R Robertson III via RT (2015-01-14 11:15:14): > Hello again, > > Unfortunately the discussion with the author has broken down. They will > not change the license, as they do not believe in licensing. This > legally puts u

Monad code changes

2015-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Commit e87f059 moved monadic procedures “where they belong”–essentially grouping them by abstraction layer rather than by programming style, which meant everything in (guix monads). This has then allowed the conversion of the code to download the package source (the ‘method’ field of ‘origin’) to

Re: wip-gobject-introspection

2015-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > I've built python-matplotlib with the patched gobject-introspection > and it appears to have achieved the desired goal: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is > not required anymore at run time. > > To achieve that I updated gtk+ and atk. The version currently in > master of those packages

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Federico Beffa skribis: >> >>> The question is: do we want to make a 'cc' symlink to 'gcc' in the >>> 'gcc' package? >> >> So far we’ve resisted the temptation, and it’s rarely been an issue. >> :-) > > Could y

wip-gobject-introspection

2015-01-14 Thread Federico Beffa
Hi, I've built python-matplotlib with the patched gobject-introspection and it appears to have achieved the desired goal: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not required anymore at run time. To achieve that I updated gtk+ and atk. The version currently in master of those packages failed with an error which looke

Re: Scripts to build a Hurd distro

2015-01-14 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
On 14 January 2015 at 01:31, Mark H Weaver wrote: > We might be able to learn something from this. Scripts to build a > standalone GNU/Hurd system (using dmd!) starting from Fedora. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-01/msg00027.html David has done a great job, and his work is