From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Distro name
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:42:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2xn8doh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj6jjmmv.fsf@dpaduchikh.invalid> (Dmitri Paduchikh's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:33:28 +0600")
Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> The (distro ...) name for modules of the distro wasn’t meant to last.
>> Initially, I thought we could find a name for the distro, and substitute
>> that name to “distro”. Possible names:
>
>> • Jinn, as in “Jinn is not Nixpkgs/NixOS”;
>> • Guixotic, as Guix + Exotic (suggested by RMS).
>
> These seem rather baroque to me. Especially the reference to nixpkgs in
> such a context. The name "Unix" is pretty much widespread so the
> abbreviation "GNU" can be seen as ingenious. nixpkgs is much less known
> and hence this looks weird, IMHO.
Right, but the meaning doesn’t have to be explained all the time,
esp. since jinn is also a noun.
> I would propose Guix World as a externally visible name, and just world
> or distro for internal namespace usage.
Hmm.
>> However, I’ve come to think that we don’t necessarily need a separate
>> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space.
>
> It would be good to have name for distro. How would you refer to it
> otherwise?
Guix?
>> The obvious solution would be (gnu ...). There’d be modules like
>> (gnu packages openssl), which does not mean that OpenSSL is a GNU
>> package, but I think that should be clear in this context. Anyway,
>> that’s the option that I like the most currently.
>
> It may be clear, but your example demonstrates internal inconsistency of
> such naming. Is Guix intended for GNU software only? If not, then be
> fair to all the others. ;)
The Guile module name space is different from the actual software names,
so I’m not too worried actually.
Thanks for your feedback!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 18:02 Distro name Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 21:05 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 21:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 22:51 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 23:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 21:49 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-02 23:14 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 21:33 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-02 21:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-03 1:22 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-02 22:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-02 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 23:09 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-03 8:45 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-03 16:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 1:12 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-15 21:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-16 8:38 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-16 16:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-17 15:02 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-18 1:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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