Greetings Guix,
I'd like to improve the experience of installing Neovim plugins/add-ons
with Guix. I've submitted #48112 [0] which adds an XDG_DATA_DIRS search
path so nvim (the Neovim executable name) will be able to find plugins
installed by guix at …/share/nvim/site.
Currently, we only have one such package, neovim-syntastic. I'd like to
add more. Many plugins are compatible with both vim and nvim. However,
they search for plugins at different paths. Therefore, the vim-syntastic
and neovim-syntastic packages, which use the copy-build-system, differ
only in the destination directories of the install-plan (and changing
"Vim" to "Neovim" in the description).
My initial inclination is to remove the duplication of maintaining two
install-plans (and other arguments) by creating a procedure that would take
as input a Vim package that uses copy-build-system and output a Neovim
package with the install-plan re-written.
Perhaps that solution would be overwrought. How would you recommend
handling this situation?
[0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48112
Best,
Jack
