bug#54938: Fw: Re: [bug#54938] [PATCH] gnu: sbcl-py4cl: Update to 0.0.0-1.2f2a008.

[Guillaume Le Vaillant]

"Paul A. Patience" <paul@apatience.com> skribis:

> (Forwarding my message since I accidentally didn't include 
> 54938@debbugs.gnu.org
> in the "to" field.)
>
> On Thursday, April 14th, 2022 at 13:14, Paul A. Patience <paul@apatience.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, April 14th, 2022 at 10:36, Guillaume Le Vaillant glv@posteo.net 
>> wrote:
>>> Is there a reason to update only to commit 2f2a008 from September 2019
>>> instead of a more recent one?
>>
>> The latest commit (from February 2021) has several issues originating from
>> the backports from digikar99's py4cl2 package.
>> For example, the py-cd function does not follow the naming scheme of py4cl,
>> and also calls the inexistent pycall function (pycall is py4cl2's equivalent
>> of py4cl's python-call).
>>
>> Further, a configuration file was introduced to configure several things,
>> including the path to python and some configuration variables related to
>> numpy array pickling.
>> The problem is the configuration file has to be located in the same
>> (writable) directory as py4cl.py, which of course causes problems with Guix.
>> Technically this isn't an issue because Guix hardcodes the path to py4cl.py,
>> so we could reuse *base-directory* for just the configuration file, but I 
>> think
>> a better solution would be to put the configuration file into 
>> XDG_CONFIG_HOME,
>> and that is probably better fixed at the source rather than in the Guix 
>> package.
>>
>> The test suite fails as well, perhaps due to the configuration file not being
>> writable.
>> I didn't investigate very much.
>>
>> I may submit some fixes to py4cl in the future for the issues I mentioned,
>> but only if I keep using it (at the moment I am evaluating its suitability).
>> Until then, the commit I've updated sbcl-py4cl to is the last before the 
>> first
>> of digikar99's changes were merged.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Paul

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Patch pushed as
5059e7f01e1d299a2a52b1649251fa49f1992385.

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