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diff --git a/posts/first-guix-package.md b/posts/first-guix-package.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1b5c704..0000000 --- a/posts/first-guix-package.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -title: My First GNU Guix Patch -date: 2013-10-16 21:00 -tags: gnu, guix, scheme, guile, wsu -summary: I packaged libtheora for GNU Guix ---- - -Over the weekend, I decided to try out GNU Guix: A fully functional -package manager based on Nix and a distribution of the GNU system. I’m -a big proponent of GNU Guile, thus I was excited to see a DSL for -package management written with Guile. - -I was told that libtheora would be pretty easy to package, and it -was. Here’s what the package definition looks like: - -```scheme -(define libtheora - (package - (name "libtheora") - (version "1.1.1") - (source (origin - (method url-fetch) - (uri (string-append "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-" - version ".tar.xz")) - (sha256 - (base32 - "0q8wark9ribij57dciym5vdikg2464p8q2mgqvfb78ksjh4s8vgk")))) - (build-system gnu-build-system) - (inputs `(("libvorbis" ,libvorbis))) - ;; The .pc files refer to libogg. - (propagated-inputs `(("libogg" ,libogg))) - (synopsis "Library implementing the Theora video format") - (description - "The libtheora library implements the ogg theora video format, -a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose -compressed video format.") - (license license:bsd-3) - (home-page "http://xiph.org/theora/"))) -``` - -Pretty slick, eh? Now, I’m starting to work on packaging SDL (1.2 -and 2) and the SDL extensions (gfx, ttf, etc.), which are not quite as -easy. I hope to package all of the dependencies that guile-2d will -need to be available as a Guix package. |