Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add emacs-constants.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> If found a few times the need to download a single, uncompressed file
> which needs to be patched. The available fetch methods do not appear
> to be appropriate. So, I've added the function
> 'uncompressed-file-fetch'. This and the function
> 'broken-tarball-fetch' which currently resides in 'engineering.scm'
> should probably belong to '(guix build utils)'.

Rather (guix download).

> From 6035d4dfd7542a615fbd70bd80527c15424185a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Federico Beffa <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:02:01 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add emacs-constants.
>
> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-constants): New variable.
> * gnu/packages/patches/emacs-constants-lisp-like.patch: New patch.
> * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.

[...]

> +(define* (uncompressed-file-fetch url hash-algo hash
> +                                  #:optional name
> +                                  #:key (system (%current-system))
> +                                  (guile (default-guile)))
> +  (mlet %store-monad ((drv (url-fetch url hash-algo hash name
> +                                      #:system system
> +                                      #:guile guile)))
> +    (gexp->derivation (or name (basename url))
> +                      #~(begin
> +                          (mkdir #$output)
> +                          (setenv "PATH"
> +                                  (string-append #$gzip "/bin"))
> +                          (chdir #$output)
> +                          (copy-file #$drv (basename #$url))))))

The dependency on gzip can be removed.

Also, the second derivation is okay, but kind of wasteful: it only
serves to move the file in a directory so the patch-application logic
can work.

However, I’m unsure the patch in question really belongs here.  After
all, there’s just one file, and additionally it’s called ‘constants.el’!
;-)

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-constants-lisp-like.patch 
> b/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-constants-lisp-like.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..5ec37f3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-constants-lisp-like.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
> +Add Scheme support

This is too terse, and I feel like the patch really does upstream work.

It seems that the file has a new home (or is it just a mirror?) at

  https://github.com/emacsmirror/constants/blob/master/constants.el

Is the patch yours?  If yes, could you find an upstream to submit it
too?  If there’s no such thing, you could always become the upstream.
;-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.