Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>>> +                'unpack
>>> +                (lambda* (#:key source #:allow-other-keys)
>>> +                  (and (zero? (system* "unzip" source))
>>> +                       (chdir "FreeImage")))
>>
>> I wonder if this should not be moved to the standard unpack phase. Can we
>> determine the file format and use the appropriate tool, unzip or tar,
>> automatically? (Assuming that there are no .tar.zip out there, of
>> course.)
>
> I've been thinking about this, too.  I don't think I would like the GNU
> build system to depend on unzip since very few packages require it and
> it's not a format that GNU uses, but maybe a procedure that replaced the
> standard unpack phase with one that uses unzip would be nice.  I think
> that work could/should be saved for a future patch.

I think we could change ‘unpack’ in gnu-build-system.scm to invoke unzip
when the file name ends in .zip, while letting it the user’s
responsibility to add unzip as an input when needed (as is already the
case for lzip.)

But yes, this would be for core-updates.

> From 2972e6e41d7c13dd619f0dd7fbda7b2a4ec0c6cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:50:30 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.
>
> * gnu/packages/image.scm (freeimage): New variable.

LGTM, OK to push!

Ludo’.