Re: About packaging documentation

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Zelphir,

> https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html
> is a good
> start. It has even got cookbook in the name. Definitely the right idea to
> complement the general documentation. I am aware of its existence.
> Unfortunately, I could not get the basic approach of the "Hello World package"
> working for my package, even though it is pure guile, no other library 
> required
> and no FFI or anything. I would have preferred not having to go through all 
> the
> autotools stuff, and to have this simple way working for my package. Perhaps I
> did something slightly wrong. I do not know. Someone mentioned on the guile 
> user
> mailing list, that this is all that should be needed for a pure guile package.
> Perhaps it can be updated?

Could you share the code you’re trying to package?  Perhaps it will
become clearer to us what you would like to see changed in the cookbook
— and perhaps it will become clearer to you how packaging for Guix works.

-- 
Ricardo