Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello! It seems, that I can make really good progress here. Now the only things that remain: The libtool .la files record the installation directory, these are textfile wrappers anyways, so I don't know if we should care about this. The mkheaders shell srcipt in install-tools record the installat

Re: MIME database

2017-11-29 Thread brendan . tildesley
(Apparently I replied only to ludo but not the mailing list by accident, so I'm sending this again) l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > (Moving the discussions to guix-devel.) > > brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org skribis: > [...] >> This makes me feel that it's desirable for us

Re: MIME database

2017-11-29 Thread brendan . tildesley
(Apparently I replied only to Andy but not the mailing list by accident, so I'm sending this again) > On Tue 28 Nov 2017 12:23, Alex Vong writes: > >> julien lepiller writes: >> >>> Le 2017-11-28 10:24, l...@gnu.org a écrit : brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org skribis: [...] > > I thi

Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Oops, I missed one. we have libstdc++.so.6.0.17-gdb.py, which is similar to the first two cases above, records installation diretory, in source form, I don't think we have to fix that either. 2017-11-29 10:43 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : > Hello! > > It seems, that I can make really good progress

Re: MIME database

2017-11-29 Thread brendan . tildesley
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > (Moving the discussions to guix-devel.) > > brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org skribis: > [...] >> This makes me feel that it's desirable for us to also tweak mimedata to make >> it more sensible -- Pdf's should open in a pdf reader before it open

Re: MIME database

2017-11-29 Thread brendan . tildesley
> On Tue 28 Nov 2017 12:23, Alex Vong writes: > >> julien lepiller writes: >> >>> Le 2017-11-28 10:24, l...@gnu.org a écrit : brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org skribis: [...] > > I think it's reasonable to want to be able to open PDFs in inkscape or > GIMP (e.g. via the "Open With" me

Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Gábor Boskovits writes: > It seems, that I can make really good progress here. > Now the only things that remain: Great! > The libtool .la files record the installation directory, these are textfile > wrappers anyways, so I don't know if > we should care about this. How about asking the libtoo

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello! I have a few idea, which could be done in parallel with this. I don't know if they worth considering, but here they are anyways. We could split the bootsrap part out of java.scm, to something like java-bootstrap.scm. We should stick here to specify versions used and not allow defaults. We

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gábor, > We could split the bootsrap part out of java.scm, to something like > java-bootstrap.scm. I agree that it would be good to separate the language bootstrap from all other packages. > The have a file like java-checkpoint.scm only with definitions like (define > idectea8 icedtea8-boots

Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects

2017-11-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > Another question, […] Please start a new thread instead of replying to an unrelated thread. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: >> As first step it is not needed to remove #:jdk icedtea-8 references, >> because I think that simply becomes a noop. Am I right here? >> That can be done as the last step before merging, I guess. > > I think that's right, but I haven't looked closely yet, and Ricardo may

Re: guix mirror online

2017-11-29 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi ng0, I've tried using your hydra.gnu.org mirror, and unfortunately it fails for me as follows: --8<---cut here---start->8--- [1] marusich@garuda.local:~ $ guix build --substitute-urls=https://guix-mirror.infotropique.org hello substitute: Backtrace: substitu

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-29 Thread Chris Marusich
Chris Marusich writes: >> 1) Confirm that these packages build before making changes. If any >> fail, fix them first if possible. >> >> ... >> >> I'm going to try step (1) tonight on my laptop. Is there a way to check >> their build status on Hydra, I wonder? I'm planning to just do it in a