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From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
To: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Agreeing on some "rules" for packaging.
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 02:31:23 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738puyddw.fsf@karetnikov.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521D1E38.9090604@gmail.com> (Cyril Roelandt's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:46:32 +0200")

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> At the GHM, a Fedora hacker (whose name I forgot) suggested that it
> might be time for us to write down some "rules" as to how packaging
> should be done.

Do they have such rules?

> For instance, Andreas suggested that patches should only be used if we
> think they might be applied upstream, thus keeping the patches/
> directory as small as possible; modifications specific to Guix should
> be written in Scheme.

I agree.

> I would also like to define a standard way to order the "#:use-module"
> at the beginning of each file, and agree on other "cosmetic" rules.

I don’t think that the order is very important.  Sometimes I order them
alphabetically or based on the use of the functions, or group the
related ones.  Would you like to propose a similar set of rules for the
DSL itself?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-27 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-27 21:46 Agreeing on some "rules" for packaging Cyril Roelandt
2013-08-27 22:31 ` Nikita Karetnikov [this message]
2013-08-28  6:29 ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-28 12:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-28 18:32   ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-08-28 20:56     ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-28 22:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-28 22:37         ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-08-29  8:59           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 21:59         ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-31  9:31           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-31 10:00             ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-31 10:22               ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-28 20:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 18:15 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-30 19:35   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 21:09     ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-30 21:22       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 21:49     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-07  8:20 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-07  8:36   ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-07 13:11   ` Ludovic Courtès

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