Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add gpgscm.

[ng0]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello!
>
> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> From 6babb18479de83bd19c44412c7957918d2c917b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: ng0 <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 22:11:41 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add gpgscm.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/gnupg.scm (gpgscm): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +    (home-page "https://gnupg.org/";)
>> +    (synopsis "tinyscheme implementation used by The GNU Privacy Guard")
>
> I’ve seen some of the discussions on IRC about gpgscm.  However, it’s
> not clear to me why we should make it a separate package.  AIUI, it’s
> meant as a purely GnuPG-internal tool, and as such it may evolve in
> lockstep with the rest of the GnuPG code base.
>
> So I’d be tempted to keep it internal to GnuPG, unless upstream decides
> to make it a separate package (which seems unlikely; it may be come part
> of libgpg-error, though.)
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I'm not familiar with all the short words being used all the
time. What is AIUI? "As I understand it"?


I think I forgot to add more descriptions above this patch and
the gnupg one.

It should've read:

This is a not very pleasant, but working hack
to enable building >=gnupg-2.1.14 without wasting much time on
having to built gpgscm in the gnupg package.  Whoever wants to
fix this may step forward and do it, I am done with this as I
need to focus on something else.
This is left intentionally with comments for other people to
improve in case we even use this. Else, someone can improve my
gnupg-2.1.14 patch and make the gpgscm patc obsolete.

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