[Bio-packaging] testing out guix

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft at uq.edu.au> writes:

> Thanks, figured it out.
>
> Forgot
>    #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
>
> At the top. The funky error message was because zlib is a license as 
> well as a package.
>
> win. What's the procedure for contributing this?

Oh, great!

(I probably should have synced mail before writing my long-winded
reply.)

To submit it I suggest checking out the Guix git repository:

   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git

Instead of adding a new module for your package it would probably best
fit in the bioinformatics.scm module.  You won't need the module header
then, just your package definition.

You can set up an environment to hack on Guix by entering the clone
directory and running

    guix environment guix

Then you can just run make to see if everything builds fine.  If it
does, make a commit with an appropriate commit message (see Pjotr's
email for an example) and use

    git format-patch -1

to generate a patch file, which you can then send to the Guix-devel
mailing list (guix-devel at gnu.org).

Thanks!

~~ Ricardo