Re: [PATCH] Add stellarium

[Eric Bavier]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:48:44 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this adds a regular file gnu/package/astronomy.scm and the package 
> "stellarium" in it.

I'm not knowledgable about the number of astronomy packages out there,
but it might make sense to add this to a more general "education"
modules instead.

> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm b/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ac02344
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
> +;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU

Remember to add a copyright statement for yourself in the header.  See
other source files.

> +;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
> +;;;
> +;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> +;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
> +;;; your option) any later version.
> +;;;
> +;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> +;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> +;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
> +;;;
> +;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> +;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> +
> +(define-module (gnu packages astronomy)
> +  #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages qt)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages gettext)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
> +  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
> +  #:use-module (guix packages)
> +  #:use-module (guix download)
> +  #:use-module (guix svn-download)
> +  #:use-module (guix utils)
> +  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
> +  #:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
> +  #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
> +
> +(define-public stellarium
> +  (package
> +   (name "stellarium")
> +   (version "0.14.2")
> +   (source (origin
> +            (method url-fetch)
> +            (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/stellarium/"
> +                                "Stellarium-sources/"
> +                                version "/stellarium-" version ".tar.gz"))
> +            (sha256 (base32
> +                     
> "1xxil0rv61zc08znfv83cpsc47y1gjl2f3njhz0pn5zd8jpaa15a"))))
> +   (build-system cmake-build-system)
> +   (synopsis "3D Sky Viewer")
> +   (description "Astronomy Sky Catalogue.")

The description here needs to be at least a full sentence.  See the
"Synopses and Descriptions" section in the manual.

> +   (license license:gpl2+)
> +   (home-page "http://www.stellarium.org/";)
> +   (arguments `(#:tests? #f))

Please also leave a comment explaining why tests are disabled.

> +   (inputs
> +     `(("qt" ,qt)
> +       ("zlib" ,zlib)
> +       ; qt5-script, qt5-serialport
> +       ("gettext" ,gnu-gettext)))
> +   ;; perl: for pod2man
> +   (native-inputs
> +     `(("qt" ,qt)

Is there a reason qt needs to be a native input in addition to a
regular input?  If so, include a comment explaining why.

> +       ("perl" ,perl)))))

I prefer the convention used elsewhere of listing the inputs
immediately after the "build-syste" field.

Could you send an updated patch?  Thanks,
`~Eric