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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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?

I don’t!  Hopefully the web site will come back soon.

Ludo’.