Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prik...@gmail.com> writes: > What Julien means is that if you were trying to write an importer, > you'd end up writing one that produces something like this > > (define-public java-language-tool > (package > (name "java-language-tool") > (version "6.0") > (source this-thing-raises-an-error) > ... > (inputs (list java-commons-cli ...)) > (native-inputs (list java-junit ...)) > ...)) > > (define-public java-commons-cli > (package > (name "java-commons-cli") > (version some-version) > (source this-thing-raises-an-error) > ...)) > > In other words, you won't be able to actually build language-tool until > you insert proper sources in all the source fields – which Julien fears > maven, being a binary distribution system first and foremost, won't > deliver on its own. > > Cheers
I see. Thanks.
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