Re: [PATCH] doc: Improve wording and fix typos in "Introduction" and "Requirements".

2013-05-25 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
'Consists of' is the correct phrase in this context. Best wishes, Alex On sam. 25 mai 2013 15:56:22 CEST, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > > > > But anyway, the normal way to use Texinfo is like TeX: you use ASCII > > > quotes, and it does the right thing (see the PDF

Re: [PATCH] doc: Improve wording and fix typos in "Introduction" and "Requirements".

2013-05-25 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> “Consists of” may be OK (any native speaker around, though?). "Consist in" means "To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part." [1] "Consist of" is usually about several things [2], AFAICT. Which one should I use? > “Preserving” instead of “honoring” changes the meaning. T

Re: [PATCH] zlib: Add a sourceforge mirror.

2013-05-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt skribis: > This is especially useful since the tarball is deleted from zlib.net as soon > as > a new version of zlib is released. > --- > gnu/packages/compression.scm |6 -- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Please commit, thanks! Ludo’.

[PATCH] zlib: Add a sourceforge mirror.

2013-05-25 Thread Cyril Roelandt
This is especially useful since the tarball is deleted from zlib.net as soon as a new version of zlib is released. --- gnu/packages/compression.scm |6 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 89cb014

Re: [PATCH] zlib: bump to 1.2.8.

2013-05-25 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 05/23/2013 05:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Did you use --no-substitutes? No, but anyway I can't use the substituter on x86. This is a blocking bug for anyone who would like to try Guix from the git repository, so I'd like to have this fixed in master. WDYT ? It can still be found at m

Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add pytz.

2013-05-25 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 05/23/2013 02:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Does it include IANA’s raw tzdata, or does it use libc’s routines? (The version number makes me think it’s the former.) According to python.org: "The standard library has no tzinfo instances, but there exists a third-party library which brings

Recompile Scheme files

2013-05-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Just a heads-up: commit a7dc055 changes the ‘native-inputs’ field of packages to be “thunked”. Thus, make sure to remove all the .go files and type “make” again when updating. (If you just use ‘guix pull’, no need to worry.) Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] doc: Improve wording and fix typos in "Introduction" and "Requirements".

2013-05-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> But anyway, the normal way to use Texinfo is like TeX: you use ASCII >> quotes, and it does the right thing (see the PDF output, and the Info >> output if you’re using makeinfo 5.x.) > > I know, I was talking about the output of 'makeinfo --html'. I'm using > 4.13.