From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Cython Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:25:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20141023062426.GA6636@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBqU-0008TP-Fr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:26:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBqN-0005ZY-1W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:26:02 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:58948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBqM-0005Yw-Ob for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:25:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:43:38PM +0200, Federico Beffa wrote: > I'm a little bit unsure about the name of the package. I've not > prefixed it with "python[2]-" as the program extends the Python > language and can work with both (2 and 3) Python version series. > However, the package installs files in > ".../lib/python${version}/site-packages/...". The naming is in-line > with Debian naming. Since there will be two packages, I suggest to follow our python module naming conventions although this is not a python module, and to prepend with "python-" and "python2-". Writing "cython2" would look as if this were a next generation cython (in particular, it would look newer than plain cython in version 0.21.1). Andreas