[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Add a package with DICT-formatted wiktionary.

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:10:53PM +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
> Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> > that patch is rather large (26KB). I don't know much about dictd, so
> > please bear with me if this is a stupid question, but why does this
> > python script have to be checked into Nixpkgs? Can it not be generated
> > or retrieved via HTTP somehow?
> >
> > It seems to me like this kind of thing ought to be applied upstream, so
> > that everyone benefits from it, not just users of NixOS.
> 
> well, there is no upstream for this. Most of the python code comes from
> a standalone dict server, but I don't see how my version could be useful
> to that standalone server. The modified code uses dictfmt from dictd to
> build a dictd-compatible database. The original code builds uncompressed
> CDB files that are served using a simple python server.
> 
> I could put it up on my personal homepage, but I don't think that's such
> a great idea.

Some projects accept related code to a 'contrib' subdirectory.

I prefer those small programs to sit in personal homepages, or on some of those
websites that offer free VCS storage.

I think I have quite enough of similar code that I could commit to nixpkgs, even
for dict. But I think I better publish that apart.

Or, if you want that very related to nixos, you could commit in the
configurations/trunk/misc subdirectory.

Those are my preferences - some may have others.

Regards,
Lluís.