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Re: FOSDEM 2019
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Alex Sassmannshausen |
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Re: FOSDEM 2019 |
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Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:09:44 +0000 |
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Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Alex Sassmannshausen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Amirouche
>>
>> Amirouche Boubekki writes:
>>
>>> Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen <address@hidden> a écrit
>>> :
>>>
>>> > - Janneke mentioned the new guile build system in guix for simpler
>>> > guile packages and I think that's pretty great. Likewise there was
>>> > some mention of some sort of you-don't-have-to-use-autotools build
>>> > system and I don't remember what it's name was. (BTW, I continue to
>>> > believe that "Guix is and should be Guile's package mangager".)
>>>
>>> I was unaware that we had a guile build system in Guix.
>>>
>>> What is it?
>>
>> I may be misunderstanding — so feel free to clarify!
>>
>> The build system in Guix would be a value that can be declared in the
>> `build-system' field of package definitions. It's basically what tells
>> Guix what steps need to be performed to build and install an
>> application.
>>
>> Guile libraries and applications currently need to use the GNU Build
>> System, or the trivial build system, with some additional steps that
>> need to be added by the packager.
>>
>> If we had a build system, we could simply stick the `guile-build-system'
>> value in the `build-system' field.
>
> This exists. I use it for the picture language, for example. Here’s
> the Guix definition:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define-public guile-picture-language
> (let ((commit "1531116036d1b5e0d2482ff2c8d77ad21f1d2bef")
> (revision "1"))
> (package
> (name "guile-picture-language")
> (version (git-version "0" revision commit))
> (source (origin
> (method git-fetch)
> (uri (git-reference
> (url
> "https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-picture-language.git")
> (commit commit)))
> (sha256
> (base32
> "04salmqf5x84vb3qkkxx47b64jyl290zsf3ik81l9hg6fwvvlmq3"))))
> (build-system guile-build-system)
> (inputs
> `(("guile" ,guile-2.2)))
> (home-page
> "https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-picture-language.git")
> (synopsis "Picture language for Guile")
> (description
> "This package provides a simple SVG-based picture language for Guile.
> The picture values can directly be displayed in Geiser.")
> (license license:lgpl3+))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This takes care of compiling the files and placing them where they
> should go. The upstream picture language repository does not use
> Autotools.
This is very exciting to see — sorry for the misinformation I spread.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Cheers,
Alex
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- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Amirouche Boubekki, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Amirouche Boubekki, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2019/02/06
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