Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-mew.

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-mew.
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:34:34 +0300

> > +     #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
> > +                (add-after 'configure 'patch-mew-icon-path ; 
> > ensure "Mew-icon.png" is found.
> > +                           (lambda _
> > +                             (substitute* "mew-key.el"
> > +                               (("\\(expand-file-name \"etc\" 
> > path\\)") "path")))))
>
> Hm, does it work for you?  I looked at "mew-key.el" but the code
> wasn't patched, probably something with the regexp.  Anyway it is
> better to patch 'mew-icon-directory' variable instead.

Hi,

Ouch, I messed up my patch when rebasing.  I meant to also set
--with-etcdir=elispdir (see attached version).  The substitution does
work, but has no use without the updated --with-etcdir.

> Also I see that by default it puts image files into
> "share/emacs/site-lisp/mew/etc".  I don't think this is a good
> place, I would rather move them to "share/mew" as most packages do
> with various additional files.

Yes, that would be cleaner.  Is there also a clean way to add
share/mew to emacs' image-load-path?  The problem is that the package
needs various *.xpm icon's, which are opened with “find-image” (via
“tool-bar-add-item”), which looks on image-load-path, whereas
“Mew-icon.png” is looked up in mew-icon-directory.

My patch as originally intended (now attached) puts everything in
share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/mew, where find-image will find it, and
patches mew-key.el so it also looks in that directory.  Not clean, but
it works :-)

cheers,

Thomas

From 175d5b859c5615157db51ab79fa059e397a7f2b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:41:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-mew.

* gnu/packages/mail.scm (emacs-mew): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/mail.scm | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
index 2318ae9b6..80a61a141 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Arun Isaac <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages flex)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gdb)
   #:use-module (gnu packages man)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages ruby)
   #:use-module (gnu packages samba)
   #:use-module (gnu packages screen)
   #:use-module (gnu packages tls)
@@ -377,6 +379,42 @@ can read the same mailbox from multiple computers.  It 
supports IMAP as REMOTE
 repository and Maildir/IMAP as LOCAL repository.")
     (license gpl2+)))
 
+(define-public emacs-mew
+  (package
+  (name "emacs-mew")
+  (version "6.7")
+  (source
+    (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (string-append "http://mew.org/Release/mew-"; version ".tar.gz"))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "03fzky2kz73vgx4cbps2psbbnrgqgkk5q7jwfldisymkzr9iz03y"))))
+  (inputs
+   `(("emacs" ,emacs-minimal)))
+  (propagated-inputs
+   `(("ruby-sqlite3" ,ruby-sqlite3) ; optionally uses an sqlite database of 
messages
+     ("ruby" ,ruby))) ; to set GEM_PATH so ruby-sqlite3 is found at runtime
+  (build-system gnu-build-system)
+  (arguments
+   `(#:configure-flags
+     (let ((elispdir (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
+                     "/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/mew")))
+       (list (string-append "--with-elispdir=" elispdir)
+             (string-append "--with-etcdir=" elispdir)))
+     #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+                (add-after 'configure 'patch-mew-icon-path ; ensure 
"Mew-icon.png" is found.
+                           (lambda _
+                             (substitute* "mew-key.el"
+                               (("\\(expand-file-name \"etc\" path\\)") 
"path")))))
+     #:tests? #f))
+  (home-page "http://www.mew.org";)
+  (synopsis "Emacs e-mail client")
+  (description "Mew (Messaging in the Emacs World) is a user interface
+for text messages, multimedia messages (MIME), news articles and
+security functionality including PGP, S/MIME, SSH, and SSL.")
+  (license bsd-3)))
+
 (define-public mu
   (package
     (name "mu")
-- 
2.11.0