Subject: [bug#52530] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] WIP: Add rust-gtk4 and dependencies

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:46:43 -0500

Hi Herman,

Herman Rimm <[email-masked]> writes:

> * gnu/packages/crates-gtk.scm (rust-gdk4-0.6): New variable.
> (rust-graphene-rs-0.17): New variable.
> (rust-graphene-sys-0.17): New variable.
> (rust-gsk4-0.6): New variable.
> (rust-gsk4-sys-0.6): New variable.
> (rust-gtk4-0.6): New variable.
> (rust-gtk4-macros-0.6): New variable.
> (rust-gtk4-sys-0.6): New variable.
> ---
> Hello,
>
> Should each package be added in a separate patch?

That's our convention, yes!  Could you please send a v2 with one package
per commit?

> The latest gtk4-rs version is 0.7, I chose 0.6 because it has more
> compatible dependencies. gtk4-rs can be updated to 0.7 together with
> those dependencies. For the new packages, guix lint notes the newer
> version and that the source is not archived on Software Heritage etc..
>
> The package descriptions are still single sentences, so it can't be
> merged. But I mail this patch for people who would like to use newer
> gtk4-rs packages despite that. Please improve the descriptions if you
> feel like it.

It'd be nice if you could write a few more words about what features
these packages provides and try a bit harder for the tests (at least to
the point where a more detailed comment about the situation can be
written than "tests failed").

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim