Re: [PATCH] gnunet-gtk: adds --with-gnunet to configure-flags

[Nils Gillmann]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> > Guix should provide a stable experience, but if stable means too
>> > old to deliver a useable experience of an still in development
>> > network, what do we suggest? I would not replace gnunet and
>> > gnunet-gtk, I would just make gnunet-svn the default (gnunet will
>> > default to gnunet-svn) and gnunet-0.10.1 will have to be
>> > installed explicitly.
>> The reply to my bug report said something similar.  If version 0.10.1 is
>> so old that upstream suggest taking the latest from SVN I suppose we
>> should do this too.
>
> I would argue that if upstream cannot be bothered to make a stable release
> every once in a while, this is not our business, unless there are dependent
> packages that stop working.
>
> On the other hand, as I fear that the number of users of the current gnunet 
> is very limited, it probably does not hurt to update it with the version
> number 0.10.1-1-xxx for some svn checkout xxx.

I am currently working on it, see also my latest Email to
guix-devel including the whys and tl;drs.

> Andreas
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