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[PATCH] gnu: genie: Add genie.

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From: "J. Sims" <jtsims <at> protonmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at>,
 "58236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <58236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: genie: Add genie.
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:06:37 +0000

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On Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 at 05:34, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at> wrote:


> Am Dienstag, dem 04.10.2022 um 19:37 +0000 schrieb J. Sims:
> 
> > (define-public genie
> > + (let ((commit "b139103697bbb62db895e4cc7bfe202bcff4ff25")
> > + (version "1167")
> > + (revision "0"))
> 
> Do not let-bind version.
> 
> > + (package
> > + (name "genie")
> > + (version (git-version version revision commit))
> > + (home-page "https://github.com/bkaradzic/genie")
> 
> home-page comes before synopsis and description...
> 
> > + (source (origin
> > + (method git-fetch)
> > + (uri (git-reference
> > + (url home-page)
> > + (commit commit)))
> 
> Don't pull it up so that you can "save" the url argument. Type url out
> explicitly.
> 
> > + (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> > + (sha256
> > + (base32
> > +
> > "16plshzkyjjzpfcxnwjskrs7i4gg0qn92h2k0rbfl4a79fgmwvwv"))))
> > + (build-system gnu-build-system)
> > + (arguments
> > + (list #:phases #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
> > + (delete 'configure)
> > + (replace 'install
> > + (lambda _
> > + (install-file "bin/linux/genie"
> > + (string-append #$output
> > "/bin")))))
> 
> Prefer saving horizontal space over vertical space.
> 
> > + #:tests? #f)) ;only manual tests
> 
> When it comes to software testing, there is no sequence of instructions
> that only a human can carry out. Tests either exist or they don't and
> in the case of GENie there at least formally exists a directory for
> them.
> 
> > + (synopsis "Project generator tool")
> 
> Note that tool is superfluous here.
> 
> > + (description
> > + "GENie is project generator tool. It generates projects from
> > +Lua scripts, making applying the same settings for multiple projects
> > easy. It
> 
> I'd simply write "GENie generates projects from Lua scripts, making it
> easy to apply the same settings to multiple projects."
> 
> > +supports generating projects using GNU Makefiles; JSON Compilation
> > Database;
> > +Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019; XCode; and
> > experimentally
> > +supports Ninja.")
> 
> We're not going to use proprietary software on our FSDG-compliant
> system, so it's only Makefiles, JSON compilation databases and
> experimental Ninja.
> 
> > + (license license:bsd-3))))
> 
> 
> Cheers

This patch should incorporate all above comments.

If there are further questions about tests: https://github.com/bkaradzic/GENie/issues/545#issuecomment-1267152313

-Juli

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