Re: Octave & QtOctave

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

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Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:

> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello Kei,
>>
>> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed.
>>> Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave?
>>
>> I think some additional changes related to "(assoc-ref inputs ..."
>> needed to be made. Otherwise, looks good to me! Here is a patch I made
>> earlier but it was not tested, feel free to cherry-pick what is needed:
>>
>> From 2b04caa66c17da257dfb4f4ccb94e8d629b95e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 03:39:40 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Rename "octave" to "octave-cli" and "qtoctave" to
>>  "octave".
>>
>> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (octave): Rename to octave-cli.
>> [name]: Change to "octave-cli".
>> (qtoctave): Rename to octave.
>> [name]: Change to "octave".
>> [inherit]: Inherit from octave-cli.
>> [source]: Likewise.
>> [inputs]: Likewise.
>> [native-inputs]: Likewise.
>> [arguments]: Likewise.
>> (flann): Update accordingly.
>> * gnu/packages/engineering.scm (qucs): Likewise.
>> (qucs-s): Likewise.
>> * gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm (shogun): Likewise.
>
> ...
>
>> -         ("octave" ,octave)
>> +         ("octave-cli" ,octave-cli)
>
> I see the main difference is that you've replace the package's
> associated string to "octave-cli" as well as the name, whereas I've only
> replaced the package name. Should I replace the associated package
> string, too?

According to the manual "6.7.2 Package Naming", the associated string is
used for package management commands such as 'guix package' and 'guix
build'. Therefore, I think we should change them as well, so that the
users can install the packages using the command
"guix package -i octave-cli" and "guix package -i octave"
respectively. What do you think?

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