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[PATCH] gnu: emacs-pretty-speedbar: New package.

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From: Martin Marshall <law <at> martinmarshall.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: 61163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#61163] [PATCH] gnu: emacs-pretty-speedbar: New package.
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:16:25 -0500

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> An updated patch is attached.

I believe something happened to the attachment in my reply,
either in transit or before sending.  (I'm new to sending
attachments with Gnus.)

Hopefully this time will work better.

-- 
Martin Marshall
law <at> martinmarshall.com

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:54 PM Martin Marshall <law <at> martinmarshall.com>
wrote:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
> >> +      (propagated-inputs (list font-awesome))
> >
> > It seems the project requires Font Awesome 6, but Guix only provides
> > version 4. Is it an issue?
>
> I don't think so.  While the default value of the `pretty-speedbar-font'
> user-setting is "Font Awesome 6 Free Solid", the setting is
> customizable, and any icon font may be used with the package.
>
> Even with the default value of `pretty-speedbar-font' unchanged, my
> system automatically uses the Font Awesome 4 fonts provided by Guix's
> font-awesome package.
>
> > It may be worth considering updating font-awesome in Guix first, but
> > I don't know what its freedom status is nowadays (as a data point,
> > Parabola provides it, tho).
>
> There is a comment to its package definition stating this:
>
>    ;; XXX The build scripts of version 5 are not freely licensed and
>    ;; so we have to stick with version 4 for now:
>    ;; <https://bugs.gnu.org/32916>
>
> The linked discussion from 2018 concluded with all participants agreeing
> that distribution of version 5 or higher would violate the Gnu FSDG.
>
> I reviewed the Font Awesome GitHub Issues, and it seems they remain
> unwilling to change the licensing terms for the build scripts, the matter
> having been raised as late as March 2022.
>
> There is a fork of Font Awesome whose stated goals are "to continue
> building the amazing resource in a fully free, libre and open-source
> fashion" (https://github.com/ForkAwesome/Fork-Awesome).  I haven't
> used it though.
>
> >> +      (description
> >> +       "Generate and implement appealing SVG icons for the Emacs
> >> Speedbar.
> >
> > This is not a complete sentence.
> >
> > Could you send an updated patch?
>
> Thank you for this and the other feedback provided.
>
> I've rewritten the description along with the other suggested changes.
>
> An updated patch is attached.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> --
> Martin Marshall
> law <at> martinmarshall.com
>

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