Re: [PATCH] gnu: graphviz: Enable Guile library.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> From 704d5eba566af8d90ec7f53e7fc11d989f85c5e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:54:01 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: graphviz: Enable Guile library.
>
> * gnu/packages/graphviz.scm (graphviz): Compile with Guile support.

Cool, applied with minor changes.

> From a73293cb66f3978e60e1244124cd28b623d6c30c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:55:52 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: graphviz: Add graphviz-guile.
>
> * gnu/packages/graphviz.scm (graphviz): New variable.

[...]

> +    (name "graphviz-guile")
> +    (version "1.0")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append
> +                    "https://github.com/roelj/graphviz-guile/archive/v";
> +                    version ".tar.gz"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32 
> "1ccmr4isj85j7djg9m56n54rqq1z94bjmrrs6vv4qdcp6ihv3c3r"))
> +              (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))

I think this is cheating a bit.  :-)

> Do you think they would be interested in this?  I kind of get the
> feeling that the language bindings are something generated
> automatically, and manually adding things is not desired (for upstream).

If it’s a single file, it’s worth trying IMO.

Thank you!

Ludo’.