From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Distro name
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:48:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txqz6w29.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301022342.40618.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 2 Jan 2013 23:42:40 +0100")
Hi!
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
[...]
>> 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.
>
> Do we need a namespace "distro"? So far, there is only the sub-namespace
> "distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic
> "packages"?
You mean (guix packages ...) or (packages ...)? The latter seems like a
bad idea, because it could collide with something else, and it’s not
sufficiently descriptive (it could be confused with Guile’s guildhall
packaging system, for instance.)
> The distro would then simply be called "guix", no?
>
> Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with an
> exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen
> appeal :-)
Heh, OK. Food for thought. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 22:48 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
2013-01-03 1:22 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-02 22:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-02 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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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