Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil.

[Andreas Enge]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:52:44PM -0400, David Thompson wrote:
> +(define-public soil

First a provocative question: The project has been created in 2007 and
apparently abandoned in 2008. Is it still worth packaging, or would it
not be preferable to look for a suitable replacement?

> +              ;; No versioned archive available.
> +              (uri "http://www.lonesock.net/files/soil.zip";)

Normally, this would not work: As soon as a new version comes out, we would
lose the old one, except for a copy on hydra that might be garbage collected.
So I think it would be preferable to use an svn checkout.

In this particular case, since there are no new releases, the argument
becomes moot...

Andreas