[bug#28210] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-sr-speedbar.

[Alex Kost]

Oleg Pykhalov (2017-09-17 12:03 +0300) wrote:

> Hello Alex,
>
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (2017-08-31 14:50 +0200) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oleg,
>>>
>>> Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:
>> [...]
>>>> From b4a8728fd752d2a245258e258e72c9c5fcfcb426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:30:19 +0300
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-sr-speedbar.
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-sr-speedbar): New variable.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> +     (origin
>>>> +       (method url-fetch)
>>>> +       (uri "https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/sr-speedbar.el";)
>>>
>>> This URL is unversioned, so it’ll break next time the file is updated in
>>> place.  Is there an alternate URL available?
>
> We could make our own versioning, couldn't we?  Like in (guix-edit
> "emacs-goto-chg").

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here.  The problem with an
unversioned source is the following: once the source is updated in
place, its hash is changed and our package could not be built anymore.

>> MELPA people also don't like sources from emacswiki and use the
>> following source instead:
>>
>>   https://github.com/emacsorphanage/sr-speedbar
>>
>> I think it is a good substitution for the original emacswiki page.
>
> Melpa people pull all from master.  Their sr-speedbar version is
> 20161025.131, but their release tarball version from which they pull is
> 20140914.2339.

Well yeah, but there were only 2 minor changes (compilation warnings
fixes) between these 2 years:

  https://github.com/emacsorphanage/sr-speedbar/commits/master

> So, I see two solutions: add a comment “There is no versioned source.”
> like in (guix-edit "emacs-goto-chg") or pull from github git commit.

I vote for using the emacsorphanage source (either git-fetch or using
the latest release are fine for me).

> https://github.com/emacsorphanage/sr-speedbar doesn't have Issue tab.
> https://emacsmirror.net/stats/emacsorphanage.html doesn't have any
> contact info except author name.  The only way for me to ask a developer
> a new release tarball is find another repository with opened Issue tab.

Jonas Bernoulli is "tarsius" on github.  He is the person who makes a
lot of cool stuff in the Emacs world (like emacsmirror, emacsorphanage
and magit).  I wouldn't bother him about making the new release just for
2 insignificant commits in the repo.

Just for the info, there was an interesting message by tarsius related
to Emacsmirror (orphanage) and Emacswiki:

  https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/2342#issuecomment-291922427

-- 
Alex