Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot

[Ludovic Courtès]

tumashu <address@hidden> skribis:

> Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot and let guile-emacs inherit it, The 
> reason is that
> user can use it build emacs from emacs.git conveniently， for example:
>
>     guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=./emacs-snapshot-20151111.tar.gz

To use --with-source, all you need to do is to rename the tarball to
‘emacs-20151111.tar.gz’; after that, you can run:

  guix build emacs --with-source=emacs-20151111.tar.gz

That’s because --with-source expects the tarball name to match the
package name (info "(guix) Invoking guix build").

Now, it might make sense to also provide an ‘emacs-snapshot’ package,
built from a Git checkout and regularly updated.  Would you like to try
that?

I think the package would simply inherit from ‘guile-emacs’ and provide
a different ‘name’, ‘version’, and ‘source’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.