Re: naming scheme for "compilers" toolsuite?

[Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>]

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Bringing back this necrothread, what you are suggesting is something I
would find intuitive.  Sounds like a good idea to me.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 22:12 zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear,
>
> Giving a look to the Arun's patches [1] about improving "guix search",
> I am testing some queries. Well, I am not able to find what I want in
> the jungle of all the packages, independently of the implementation of
> "guix search".
>
>
> For example, what is the package which provides standard libraries and
> tools for Haskell? for OCaml?
>
>
> Does the package named "ghc-toolchain" or "haskell-toolchain" seem a good
> idea?
> Debian provides the package named "haskell-platform" which gives a
> nice batteries included Haskell experience.
>
> Note that Guix already provides "gcc-toolchain" or "clang-toolchain"
> or "gfortran-toolchain". Therefore, it seems consistent to provide
> something similar for Haskell and OCaml, say. Maybe more.
>
> Last, from the "guix search haskell" it is hard to know which packages
> to install and then to have an easy Haskell experience. The package
> "ghc" is the sixth on the list.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> All the best,
> simon
>
> [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39258#68
>
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