Re: [PATCH 01/10] gnu: Add emacs-smex.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 06/03/2016 06:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> I think the downside is that the GitHub updater won’t be able to
>> identify these, although I’m not 100% sure of that.
>
> I haven't actually tested but I would think that is right
> Ludo.

Indeed:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix upstream)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix import github)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu packages emacs)
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-update-path emacs-smex (list %github-updater))
$2 = #f
scheme@(guile-user)> ((upstream-updater-latest %github-updater) emacs-smex)
$3 = #f
scheme@(guile-user)> ((upstream-updater-predicate %github-updater) emacs-smex)
$4 = #f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> However, I expect this issue is solvable with modifications to the
> GitHub updater.

Yeah, we should probably do it eventually.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.