[bug#32860] [PATCH] gnu: pocl: Update to 1.2.

[fis trivial]

Leo Famulari writes:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:06:30AM +0000, fis trivial wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/opencl.scm (pocl): Update to 1.2.
>
> Thanks!
>
>>      (source
>>       (origin
>> -       (method git-fetch)
>> -       (uri (git-reference
>> -             (url "https://github.com/pocl/pocl.git";)
>> -             (commit (string-append "v" version))))
>> -       (file-name (git-file-name name version))
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (string-append
>> +             "https://github.com/pocl/pocl/archive/v";
>> +             version".tar.gz"))
>
> Is there a particular reason to use the tarball instead of the Git repo
> here? I ask because Github's autogenerated tarballs are subject to
> change [0], which is annoying, whereas the Git repo should be
> bit-identical forever.
>
> [0] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/4343

Oh, sorry I didn't know about that.  Tarball feels cleaner than setting up a
git repo (just a feeling).  I will send another patch using git soon.

But isn't those tarball now everywhere in Guix?  It would be a huge headache.

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Jiaming