Create AUR package

[fluix-dev]

I use Arch so I'll make an AUR package (sway-borders-git) for this fork. I'm not sure how releases will work, but when it comes to making them I'll try to make a sway-borders package as well.

[hrfee]

Are you planning for this to be installable alongside other versions of sway without conflicting?

[fluix-dev]

No. This will conflict with the sway package the same way sway-git conflicts with, and provides, sway as well.

If you would like to have multiple versions, clone the various versions multiple times and build them separately, but don't install. Then you can run the versions directly from the output executable such as ./build/sway/sway.

[hrfee]

Ah ok, that makes more sense.

[chaitunya]

@TheAvidDev Since I haven't seen any more information about the AUR package, I've tried my hand at creating a PKGBUILD. It's pretty simple--I based it off of the sway-git AUR PKGBUILD:

pkgname=sway-borders-git
_pkgname=sway-borders
pkgver=r6518.0dc19521
pkgrel=1
license=("MIT")
pkgdesc="i3-compatible Wayland compositor"
makedepends=("meson" "git" "scdoc" "wayland-protocols" "ninja")
depends=(
	"json-c" "pcre" "wlroots-git" "cairo" "pango" "gdk-pixbuf2" "pam"
	"xorg-server-xwayland" "swaybg-git"
)
optdepends=(
	"alacritty: Default terminal emulator."
	"dmenu: Default for launching applications."
	"i3status: To display system information with a bar."
	"swayidle-git: Idle management daemon for Sway."
	"swaylock-git: Screen locker for Sway."
)
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="https://swaywm.org"
source=("${pkgname%-*}::git+https://github.com/TheAvidDev/sway-borders.git")
sha512sums=('SKIP')
provides=("sway")
conflicts=("sway")
options=(debug !strip)

pkgver() {
	cd "$_pkgname"
	printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
}

prepare() {
	cd "$_pkgname"
}

build() {
	cd "$_pkgname"
	meson \
		-Dwerror=false \
		--prefix /usr \
		"$srcdir/build"
	ninja -C "$srcdir/build"
}

package() {
	cd "$_pkgname"
	DESTDIR="$pkgdir" ninja -C "$srcdir/build" install
}

It worked for me. If you would like, either you or I can submit it to the AUR.

[fluix-dev]

Thanks for making this, it looks basically exactly like what I had in mind and already made. My intention was to finish the other PRs, namely #3, #6, and #10 before putting this on the AUR.

Let me know if you would rather have this in the AUR before closing those PRs, in which case I'll do that instead.

[chaitunya]

That makes sense. I agree that you should push the package to the AUR once those issues (I think you meant issues, not PRs) are closed.

[fluix-dev]

Ah yep, wrong wording. Feel free to work on them though 😄

[spikecodes]

I would love to see this awesome project on the AUR!

[fluix-dev]

Great news, #17 has been opened to close #6. Please test it out and let me know if you find any issues. I'll leave it up for the next few days, while trying to fix #3 and #10, but will create an AUR package regardless.

[fluix-dev]

Alright, the package is up! Please test it out and let me know if there's any issues.

sway-borders-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-borders-git/