Subject: [bug#75167] [PATCH gnome-team 1/6] gnu: Add libpeas-2.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:29:37 +0900

Hi Liliana,

Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]> writes:

> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (libpeas-2): New variable.

[...]

> +(define-public libpeas-2
> +  (package

[...]

> +     "Libpeas is a gobject-based plugin engine, targeted at giving every
> +application the chance to assume its own extensibility.  It also has a set of
> +features including, but not limited to: multiple extension points; on-demand
> +(lazy) programming language support for C, Python and JS; simplicity of the
> +API.")
> +    (license license:lgpl2.0+)))
> +
>  (define-public libpeas
>    (package
>      (name "libpeas")

Is a new package really required?  Could we instead more simply update
libpeas directly to version 2?  If the older libpeas need to be
maintained, I think inheriting from the older version would make sense
to avoid duplicated fields.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim