Re: [PATCH] Add khmer.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 08:48:14AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> On 27 June 2016 3:34:42 AM AEST, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 09:59:51PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> >> I'm not convinced, I'm afraid. According to the SMHasher README [0]:
> >> 
> >> >This is the home for the MurmurHash
> >> <https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher/tree/master/src> family of hash
> >> functions along with the SMHasher
> >> <https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher/tree/master/src> test suite
> >used to
> >> verify them.
> >> 
> >> So that would count that as an independent upstream distribution of
> >> murmurhash, right?
> >
> >My understanding is that SMHasher does not create a library, but just
> >provides raw source code, leaving it up to 3rd party software authors
> >to
> >integrate it into their applications. Is that right?
> 
> Yes. I don't see how that matters though, it is still bundling which should 
> be avoided if possible right? What am I missing?

So far my understanding has been that, in Guix, we don't want to create
Guix-specific distributions of upstream code. SMHasher is the canonical
source for Murmur, but SMHasher doesn't seem suitable for building a
library that other applications can use, right?

Do any other distros have a package for Murmur or SMHasher that we can
use as an example?

Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?