Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add php-hello-world.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 29.12.2016 um 18:44 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Given the popularity of PHP, I would expect tutorials and examples to
>> abound already, no?
>>
>> You can of course roll your own and Guix could distribute it, that’s
>> fine.  I’m just surprised we even have to do that in the first place.
>
> I was surprised, too. Otherwise I'd not write a own package.
>
> But I see no benefit of putting a project to github, just do not have a
> "home grown" package at guix. IMHO implementing this is just a waste of
> time.

I can understand why you’d feel this way, it’s just a few lines of code
after all.  However, as a distro, I think we should refrain from
providing packages unrelated to Guix/Guile that have no upstream.

Ludo’.