From: swedebugia@riseup.net
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: gabrielhondet@gmail.com, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:58:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b157f660f14ccf542cfa4fe793cc3db@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgxt6ijv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
On 2019-01-16 09:47, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Gabriel!
>
> Thanks for contributing Gauche to Guix!
> I've noticed something strange however: in the description, you mention
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> There are currently 58 packages available.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Isn't it shortsighted? If another package is added upstream, then the
> description won't match anymore.
>
> Why mentioning it at all?
It was my idea during review. I think it is a good idea to give the user
a hint about the number of available packages that exist in the
ecosystems/package-managers we package.
This is also valid for our python-pip-package etc. Currently this
description does not mention anything about the number available
(164,921 projects as of today).
I agree that specifying the exact number might not be a good idea for
the reason you stated. What about "More that 50 packages are currently
available"?
For pip this would be "More than 164.000 packages are currently
available."
--
This enables the user to quickly get a feel of how many of the total
packages of python are currently in guix: fold-packages... prefix
python: ~1400 out of 164.000 total ~ less than 1% of the python
ecosystem is currently available in Guix thus you could help import more
packages!
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-16 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 9:47 Gauche description Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-16 11:58 ` swedebugia [this message]
2019-01-16 12:53 ` Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description) Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-16 14:52 ` Gabriel Hondet
2019-01-16 15:42 ` Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions swedebugia
2019-01-16 17:12 ` Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description) Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-16 17:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-16 19:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-16 23:56 ` Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions swedebugia
2019-01-17 7:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-16 13:03 ` Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description) Ricardo Wurmus
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