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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil.
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David Thompson |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil. |
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Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:35:13 -0400 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
> 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?
I am packaging it because it's a dependency for at least one big
project. The example I know of is Dolphin, a video game console
emulator.
>> + ;; 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...
Yeah, dunno what to do here. I could use the SVN checkout, but that
really sucks.
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