Re: Add guile-minikanren

[Eric Bavier]

On 2015-04-23 13:57, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > +    (source (origin
> > > > +              (method git-fetch)
> > > > +              (uri (git-reference
> > > > +                    (url "https://github.com/ijp/minikanren.git";)
> > > > +                    (commit 
> > > > "10d507785eab30b0f8b47bf8bb37d880731fc031")))
> > >
> > > Is there no tarball? If possiblem we would prefer this.
> >
> > No tarball.  I would recommend that the first 7 characters of the
> > commit SHA be used as the package version, and this string here could
> > just be replaced with 'version'.
>
> Maybe make the version (string-append "0-" commit) so we can eventually
> increment that zero to make upgrades work, as Andreas notes?
> (I think upstream minikanren is frozen anyway.)

Why not use YYYYMMDD.<7-char-sha> so that the version is less arbitrary? 
 It would still sort for upgrades.

Sounds like another set of conventions to document in the manual ;)

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`~Eric