Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot

[Feng Shu]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> tumashu <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot and let guile-emacs inherit it, The 
>> reason is that
>> user can use it build emacs from emacs.git conveniently， for example:
>>
>>     guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=./emacs-snapshot-20151111.tar.gz
>
> To use --with-source, all you need to do is to rename the tarball to
> ‘emacs-20151111.tar.gz’; after that, you can run:
>
>   guix build emacs --with-source=emacs-20151111.tar.gz
>
> That’s because --with-source expects the tarball name to match the
> package name (info "(guix) Invoking guix build").

I don't think it is a flexible way, i like the below:

    guix build emacs --with-source=~/my-own-emacs-dir --override-name=emacs 
--override-version=20151111

>
> Now, it might make sense to also provide an ‘emacs-snapshot’ package,
> built from a Git checkout and regularly updated.  Would you like to try
> that?
>
> I think the package would simply inherit from ‘guile-emacs’ and provide
> a different ‘name’, ‘version’, and ‘source’.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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