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[PATCH] Add leiningen

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Message #17 received at 31250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 <at> thebird.nl>
Cc: Charlie Ritter <chewzerita <at> posteo.net>, 31250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>
Subject: Re: [bug#31250] [PATCH] Add leiningen
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:44:19 +0200

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 <at> thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:41:32PM +0000, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> > The policy for Guix is to build things from source.  So we would have to
>> > provide Leiningen and its dependencies as packages built from source,
>> > and to remove the auto-download functionality from the script.
>> 
>> But this is on first run, not during the installation as far as I remember.
>> So in my opinion that's not an immediate blocker for the initial package.
>> The obvious fix afterwards is to apply the building from source.
>
> We also packaged tools like conda that download binaries when run.

True, that’s not great, and Leiningen may actually do the same thing as
part of its normal job…

I think it’s good to estimate how difficult it would be to build
Leiningen from source, and then we can decide what to do.

Ludo’.

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