Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:

> Since the “libraries” page in the website will probably change regularly
> it is useful to have some abstractions to facilitate the maintenance.

Indeed.

> A second step would be to provide a way to sync the software entries
> with Guix package definitions.

Could help, indeed.

> From 7ad1e1bd620d48099013b276be2e89ea48a3ec1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 00:06:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] libraries: Abstract packages and categories.
>
> This provides a distinction between the data and the SHTML
> representation.
>
> * website/apps/base/libraries-page.scm (texi->shtml, package)
>  (package->shtml, category, category->shtml, %packages-core)
>  (%packages-gui, %packages-file-formats, %packages-tools)
>  (%packages-apps): New procedures.
>  (<package>, <category>): New record types.
>  (guile-lib, guile-lint, guile-reader, guile-syntaxe-parse)
>  (guile-clutter, guile-gnome, guile-gtk, guile-ncurses, guile-sdl)
>  (libruin, artanis, gnutls, guile-avahi, guile-rpc, scss, autogen, guix)
>  (libchop, beast, geda, lilypond, skribilo, snd, texmacs, xchat-guile)
>  (%categories): New variables.

[…]

> +;;; XXX: In order to allow a proper alignement of keywords in Emacs we need to
> +;;; enable the prefix keyword type ':NAME'.
> +(read-set! keywords 'prefix)

If you want to take that route, you need to make sure the reader change
is effective when the file is read, rather than at run time:

  (eval-when (expand load eval)
    (read-set! keywords 'prefix))

I would suggest fixing Emacs though, or ignoring the limitation for now.

WDYT?

Other than this minor issue, I find it very nice!

I’ve added you to the Savannah group so you can push changes to the web
site.  Please restrict yourself to guile-web.git and post changes here
beforehand (and feel free to ping those lazy maintainers when it takes
too long!).

When you push a change to the web site’s source, can you please update
the CVS web repo at the same time?  See
<https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=guile> for instructions.  If in
doubt, don’t hesitate to ask.  (Note that several parts of the web site,
such as the manuals, are in CVS but not in guile-web.git.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.