Re: Octave & QtOctave

[Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>]

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Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:

> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Maybe this is true when manipulating the package definition, but that
>>> doesn't seem to be the case in general. When I run
>>> "./pre-inst-env guix package --show=shogun", for example,
>>> "octave-cli@4.4.1" is listed as a dependency, even though "octave" is
>>> the associated name in shogun's input list.
>>>
>>> To be clear, I've changed the string for octave's and octave-cli's
>>> package name in their respective package definitions, but I haven't
>>> changed the string in the input lists of octave-cli's dependent
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to follow convention when it comes to this, and other
>>> packages in input lists seem to omit extensions to the base name of the
>>> package in their assoc-lists. For example, ("gettext", gettext-minimal)
>>> and ("python", python-minimal-wrapper) are common inputs for packages.
>>
>> I think you are right! This was a misunderstanding on my part. I thought
>> the association string in the input lists must be the same as the
>> package name, but appraently this is not the case.
>>
>> Take gettext-minimal as an example,
>> its variable name is 'gettext-minimal',
>> its package name is "gettext-minimal",
>> but its input name is "gettext".
>
> Precisely! Unless anyone else has concerns that should be brought to
> light, I'll be committing this within the next 2 days.
>
> Thank you to all involved so far.

I've pushed this to master. Thanks again!

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