Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-contextlib2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 12/6/15, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Yes, could you adjust it and send an updated patch?
>>
>
> I've attached the new patch here. I've shortened a few lines,
> including the one requested.

Great.

> In particular, I've shortened every line of the description to 70
> columns. Because of that, it looks like the first line of the
> description will wind up being significantly shorter than 70 chars.
> Are the newlines in the description significant? Or is there some
> reformatting that happens when the description is printed to the
> terminal, e.g. via "guix package --search=foo"?

Yes, there’s reformatting happening here, so don’t worry.  We normally
wrap at 78 columns, as per .dir-locals.el.

>> I must I was a bit confused, partly due to the reply-on-top, which made
>> it more difficult for me to see what you were referring to.  Okay, I was
>> also late for other reasons ;-), but still, I think it’d be great if you
>> could avoid top-posting.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out; I'll reply on the bottom from now on!

Thanks.  :-)

> From 4089b10f384b389999576dfc8766c661a5787a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chris Marusich <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 21:07:40 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-contextlib2.
>
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-contextlib2, python2-contextlib2):
>   New variables.

[...]

> +    (home-page "http://contextlib2.readthedocs.org/";)
> +    (synopsis "Tools for decorators and context managers")
> +    (description "This module is primarily a backport of the Python
> +3.2 contextlib to earlier Python versions.  Like contextlib, it
> +provides utilities for common tasks involving decorators and context
> +managers.  It also contains additional features that are not part of
> +the standard library.")
> +    (license psfl)))
> +
> +(define-public python2-contextlib2
> +  (package-with-python2 python-contextlib2))

IIUC the description it only makes sense for Python 2.x, right?

In that case, could you add an explicit #:python in ‘arguments’ and keep
only the 2.x variant?  I could do that for you if you prefer.

Thanks, and sorry for the delay!

Ludo’.