Re: [PATCH] Add opendht.

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:17:29AM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> * gnu/packages/telephony.scm (opendht): New variable.

I wonder if there is a better module? Distributed hash tables aren't
specific to telephony.

> +(define-public opendht
> +  (let ((commit "13f8c13ac4ebb3b43474d91ca48b42a1019083f4"))
> +    ;; This is the commit used by the Ring Project.

If Ring works with the latest tagged release, then I think we should use
that instead of the Git commit. They released only 3 days ago, so it's
unlikely that Ring needs some feature that's not in the tarball.

> +      (inputs
> +       `(("gnutls" ,gnutls)
> +         ("nettle" ,nettle)
> +         ("msgpack" ,msgpack)
> +         ("readline" ,readline)))

I noticed they bundle Argon2, which is a password hashing library:
https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht/tree/master/src/argon2

I think we should delete the bundled library in an origin snippet and
make opendht use an external package.

> +      (native-inputs
> +       `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
> +         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> +         ("automake" ,automake)
> +         ("libtool" ,libtool)))
> +      (arguments
> +       `(#:configure-flags '("--disable-tools" "--disable-python")
> +         #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +                    (add-before 'configure 'autoconf
> +                      (lambda _
> +                        (zero? (system* "autoreconf" "-vfi")))))))

If we package a tagged release, it's possible that we won't need to
bootstrap.

> +      (license gpl3))))

I skimmed the source files, and most of them said "either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.", so we should use
gpl3+.