From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add guile-minikanren
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:44:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj5zot64.fsf@taylan.uni.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150423131751.GA12941@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:17:51 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>> I named it guile-minikanren which isn't really accurate. I'm not sure
>> how else I could name it though? I'd be open to suggestions!
>
> There is a chapter in the documentation about this:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Package-Naming
> The main idea is to not think too much, but to simply use the upstream
> project name. Here this seems to be "minikanren" without "guile-".
> We have special rules for perl and python; maybe we also need a special
> rule for guile?
I think the issue here is that miniKanren is a project of its own, and
this is a Guile port by a third party, so the package probably shouldn't
squat the name "minikanren".
IMO "guile-foo" is sensible for packages that install a Guile module,
akin to "perl-foo" and "python-foo".
Taylan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 15:15 Add guile-minikanren Christopher Allan Webber
2015-04-23 13:17 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-23 13:44 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer [this message]
2015-04-23 13:46 ` Thompson, David
2015-04-23 13:52 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-23 18:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-23 19:48 ` Eric Bavier
2015-04-23 19:51 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-23 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-24 2:46 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-04-25 21:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-04-27 1:46 ` David Thompson
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