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<bubu>hum, my english is terrible

<bubu>time for some sleep

<civodul>ah, i see

<civodul>yes, there could be a Scheme procedure that generates a derivation that runs "autoreconf" and such

<civodul> http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html now with logos (for GNU packages that have one) :-)

<bubu>so that every auto* project properly made (with dependencies declaration) would have his derivation already ready

<civodul>yeah

<civodul>in practice, it's not quite standardize

<civodul>+d

<civodul>sometimes "autoreconf" is enough, but sometimes there are other steps needed

<civodul>like "git submodule init", "gnulib-tool --update", etc.

<civodul>so it couldn't be 100% generic

<bubu>yes, i understand this, i was just think of a quick way to "simple" projects

<bubu>thinking*

<bubu>just no to frighten developer

<civodul>yeah, could be

<civodul>though for a simple project, "autoreconf" should work :-)

<civodul>and it can't really be any simpler ;-)

<bubu>"make you configure.ac properly, generate the rest and just check its ok"

<bubu>yes but for you derivation, you still need to fill the name, version and dependencies

<bubu>then it could run autoreconf && ./configure && make afterwards

<bubu>why not

<civodul>maybe i misunderstood

<civodul>are you talking about generating a package definition from a configure.ac?

<bubu>yes

<civodul>aaah, ok

<civodul>sorry :-)

<civodul>so yes!

<civodul>that's a good idea

<civodul>i know Nixpkgs has a script that does that +/- for Xorg packages

<civodul>well, patches welcome :-)

<bubu>because i was thinking that it's hard for a lonely dev to manage properly script files for package managers as he already spent time to make something similar for autoconf

<bubu>I which I had time for this, but it won't be before a few mouths at best that I can start looking at this :(

<civodul>though i hope it doesn't look too difficult either: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Defining-Packages

<bubu>yes that what I quickly look for 20 mins ago :)

<bubu>but i'm noob for parsing, the best would be to hack autoconf after it has done all the parsing

<civodul>heh

<civodul>yes

<civodul>actually autoconf has an option to extract useful info

<bubu>hum

<bubu>interesting !

<bubu>but first some sleep, gonna take some time during the week end to look for this maybe

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