Re: [PATCH] gnu: graphviz: Enable Guile library.

[Roel Janssen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> From 704d5eba566af8d90ec7f53e7fc11d989f85c5e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:54:01 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: graphviz: Enable Guile library.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/graphviz.scm (graphviz): Compile with Guile support.
>
> Cool, applied with minor changes.
>
>> From a73293cb66f3978e60e1244124cd28b623d6c30c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:55:52 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: graphviz: Add graphviz-guile.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/graphviz.scm (graphviz): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +    (name "graphviz-guile")
>> +    (version "1.0")
>> +    (source (origin
>> +              (method url-fetch)
>> +              (uri (string-append
>> +                    "https://github.com/roelj/graphviz-guile/archive/v";
>> +                    version ".tar.gz"))
>> +              (sha256
>> +               (base32 
>> "1ccmr4isj85j7djg9m56n54rqq1z94bjmrrs6vv4qdcp6ihv3c3r"))
>> +              (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
>
> I think this is cheating a bit.  :-)

Just a bit :-).

Other than getting it upstream, I don't see how else I could've done this.

>> Do you think they would be interested in this?  I kind of get the
>> feeling that the language bindings are something generated
>> automatically, and manually adding things is not desired (for upstream).
>
> If it’s a single file, it’s worth trying IMO.

Alright.  At the moment, their website seems to be down (graphviz.org),
and their IRC channel very quiet.  Do you know the mailing list address
for graphviz?

Thanks for your time.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen