Subject: Re: bug#54669: [PATCH] gnu: oil: Update to 0.9.9.
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Felix Gruber <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 12:41:58 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Felix Gruber <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/shells.scm (oil): Update to 0.9.9.
>   [source]: Add comment on embedded CPython like Ludo’ proposed in
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53642#3.

Applied, thanks!

> +     ; oil's sources contain a modified version of CPython 2.7.13.
> +     ; According to https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/05/05.html
> +     ; this bundles version of CPython had certain unused parts removed
> +     ; and its build system has been replaced by a custom one.
> +     ; This would probably make it quite complicated to replace the
> +     ; bundled CPython with the one from the python2 package.

I changed that to double semicolon (single semicolon is conventionally
for “margin comments”).

Ludo’.