Re: [PATCH] Add ustr.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:13:33PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> * gnu/packages/textutils.scm (ustr): New variable.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> +              (uri (string-append "http://www.and.org/ustr/"; version
> >> +                                  "/ustr-" version ".tar.bz2"))
> 
> [...]
> 
> > It looks like this directory only contains the current version of the
> > code, but I can't find an archive of old releases. How about mentioning
> > this in a comment, and (maybe) asking and.org to provide an archive?
> 
> Actually, there are older versions as well.  Version 1.0.2, for example,
> is at
> 
>     http://www.and.org/ustr/1.0.2/ustr-1.0.2.tar.bz2

Ah, I see now!

> 
> >> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> >> +    (arguments
> >> +     `(#:make-flags
> >> +       (list "CC=gcc"
> >> +             "HIDE="
> >
> > I read the Makefile's comment about this. ;)
> 
> I guess we don’t qualify as “all sane people” :)
> 
> >> +             "LDCONFIG=echo"
> >
> > Can you explain this one in a comment?
> 
> Will do.
> 
> >> +             (string-append "prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
> >> +             "all-shared")
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> +    ;; Quoted from the home page: "The License for the code is MIT, 
> >> new-BSD,
> >> +    ;; LGPL, etc. ... if you need another license to help compatibility, 
> >> just
> >> +    ;; ask for it.  It's basically public domain, without all the legal
> >> +    ;; problems for everyone that trying to make something public domain
> >> +    ;; entails."
> >> +    (license license:public-domain)))
> >
> > Sounds good to me. Hopefully there are no objections from the legal
> > experts!
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to review!  I’ll push this after adding the
> comment.

Okay!

> 
> ~~ Ricardo