Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xinetd.,Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xinetd.

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xinetd.,Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xinetd.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:58:53 +0100

> [...]
> > +   (file-name (string-append name "-" version))
>
> file-name is used mainly to avoid polluting the store with 
> meaningless
> (tobias.gr/download.php?foo=123) or misleading file names.
>
> It shouldn't be needed here, and would require its own ".tar.gz" 
> suffix
> otherwise.

Ah yes, for some reason I thought we insisted the file would conform 
to the version number as written here (i.e. "." instead of "-" as a 
separator), and then forgot about the suffix...

> Would the simpler (and more idiomatic)
>
>   #:tests? #f ... ; no tests
>
> work?

totally!

> > + (license (l:non-copyleft "file://COPYRIGHT"))))
>
> Interesting licence. :-) Against my intuition, it appears to be
> FSDG-compatible[0].

Yes, feels like this license can cause more confusion than it manages
to avoid (which is ostensibly the purpose) :-)

Thomas