On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 21:58, rafael ff1 <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/5/8 Taylor Venable <[email protected]>: >> Hi everybody, I just started using Arch a few weeks ago, and I've been >> mightily impressed. I want to help out, so I started looking in the >> AUR for things to do. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a >> package for the devel version of SWI-Prolog. The stable release is in >> [community], and there are git snapshots in AUR, but they are old and >> unowned. So I created a package for the development release. The devel >> release is distinct from a git snapshot, which is why I created a >> separate package, rather than updating the git snapshot one. Since >> there are development releases, I don't personally find git snapshots >> to be that useful. >> >> I wanted to make sure I'm doing this correctly, so if you have the >> time to take a look for me I'd appreciate it. Any guidance will be >> welcomed. I basically copied the [community] package's PKGBUILD and >> modified the necessary properties. I only have x86_64 machines, so >> I've not checked i686, but the resulting binary package does work for >> me. Since I wanted to get a little review before submitting it, the >> package can be found on my website: >> http://metasyntax.net/swi-prolog-devel-5.11.20-1.src.tar.gz > > Looks good - I didn't compile it though. Just fyi, you can share > PKGBUILDs in mail list using http://pastebin.com/ with BASH syntax > highlighting, instead of compressed tarball. > > I advise you to always run namcap after building packages and before > uploading to AUR. It helps a lot! (Ex: to find missing dependency in > "depends" array) See more in Namcap wiki. > > Welcome aboard!
Thanks! I added a conflict for the swi-prolog in [community] and submitted it. :-) -- Taylor C. Venable http://metasyntax.net/
