[bug#31548] [PATCH] gnu: Add sbcl-stumpwm-checkout.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ping!  :-)

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Hello Ludovic,
>>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/lisp.scm (sbcl-stumpwm-checkout): New public variable.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> +(define-public sbcl-stumpwm-checkout
>>>> +  (let ((commit "cec7fd9e963e5da59b05ba0ffbe292dc94fd2947"))
>>>> +    (package
>>>> +      (inherit sbcl-stumpwm)
>>>> +      (version (git-version (package-version sbcl-stumpwm) "1" commit))
>>>
>>> Could you explain the rationale and write that as a comment?  :-)
>>>
>>> As you know we currently avoid packaging unreleased versions unless we
>>> have a good reason to do so (info "(guix) Version Numbers").
>>
>> The reason I want to be it in a Guix package collection is StumpWM
>> release version (not a release candidate) was published 1 year ago and
>> since this date there are 250 commits in master branch.
>>
>> I was using StumpWM builded manually with Quicklisp, but then I switched
>> to Guix package, because I don't want to build StumpWM manually, but I
>> found that StumpWM command ‘toggle-always-on-top’ is missing and StumpWM
>> contrib modules failed to build.
>>
>> It's a fast dirty solution to have StumpWM from Guix and StumpWM contrib
>> modules with some dependencies builded with Quicklisp.  :-)  E.g.:
>
> OK, that sounds reasonable.
>
> In that case, I’d suggest changing the “name” field to “stumpwm-next” as
> we did a few times in the past, so that by default, people still get the
> official release.  That and a comment summarizing what you wrote above
> and you can go ahead!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.