André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> skribis:
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> Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi.
>> We usually try to avoid taking libraries from git submodules unless the
>> software can't be made to compile with system libraries.
>> Can't Nyxt 3.12.0 work with the libraries packaged in Guix?
>
> Nyxt pins Common Lisp libraries versions as to ensure everything works
> as expected. Concretely, there's an issue related to sbcl-alexandria
> since the commit Guix is using breaks Nyxt's functionality (see [1]).
>
> You may argue that a sbcl-alexandria variant could be defined (see [2]),
> but it seems brittle from Nyxt's perspective and probably undesirable
> from Guix's perspective.
>
> All package managers are using the git submodules to build Nyxt,
> including Nix. From Nyxt's perspective, any build that won't use the
> pinned CL libraries versions isn't Nyxt per se, but a custom build (or
> perhaps a "variation" in Guix's parlance).
>
> Happy to know your thoughts.
>
> [1] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/3503
> [2] https://github.com/aadcg/aadcg-guix-channel/blob/284a62f30b91642b08a66d02679611655d0bfb51/packages/aadcg-nyxt.scm#L20
If I understand correctly, the issue comes from the fact that the
read-stream-content-into-string function from recent versions of
alexandria doesn't accept an octet stream as argument instead of
a character stream anymore.
Wouldn't it be possible to replace
(alexandria:read-stream-content-into-string connection)
by something like
(map 'string
#'code-char
(alexandria:read-stream-content-into-byte-vector connection))
in Nyxt? If it works it would allow us to continue using the system
libraries (some of which might have patches to work well in Guix).
