Hello Philip,
Philip Kaludercic <phil...@posteo.net> writes: > reading [0], I would like to ask if there is any interest in > up-streaming the work I have been doing to build old versions of Emacs > using Guix (the main use-case is to help with testing Emacs packages on > various versions)[1]? This is a very interesting use of Guix! > My fear is that with further upstream development, > there might be conflicts between the packages I inherit from (emacs, > emacs-no-x, emacs-minimal) and the packages I have definined in [1]. > An easy fix might be to not rely on the upstream package definitions, > but I am not certain if there are any down-sides I haven't considered. > > Of course, if the Guix project isn't interested in providing old > versions of packages, then I will continue look into maintaining my own > channel. I don’t have much experience with the Guix projects and its preferences and practices, so I can’t tell if it would be interested or not, unfortunately. I just wanted to mention that if not, another upstreaming option could be the Guix-Past channel: https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past -- Thanks Thiago
