From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: add proj4. Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:46:36 -0500 Message-ID: <20170116224636.GA6951@jasmine> References: <20170115232147.2ee240cc@alma-ubu> <20170115232402.17585716@alma-ubu> <20170116002121.1aec454e@scratchpost.org> <20170116210512.6e519268@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTG33-0006R2-Au for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:46:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTG2y-0005GC-FC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:46:45 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:34973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTG2x-0005Fy-RJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:46:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170116210512.6e519268@alma-ubu> 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" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_H=F6fling?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:05:12PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote: > > > About the package name: The official name is "proj.4", so I left it > > > as that. > > > > Seems reasonable. > > > > > As variable name, I chose "proj4". Is that correct? > > > > Why not use the variable name "proj.4" too then? *scratches head* > > > Because my Scheme-time is far too long ago, and I'm used to languages > where "dot" in variable names is bad. The convention seems to be that all punctuation is replaced by a hyphen, although the manual section 7.6.2 Package Naming doesn't specify this. There are a few packages with 'dots' in the name. Either way, I think it's not that important. It's probably more useful to stay close to the "upstream" name so that users can find packages quickly. Do as you see fit :)