From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix. Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:40:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160805183730.19049-2-david@craven.ch> <87k2f2ognn.fsf@elephly.net> <20160830140748.085c3492@openmailbox.org> <20160916000338.44cc4d03@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkvFP-0007iB-Jr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:40:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkvFL-000355-Mp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:40:14 -0400 Received: from smtp2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.36]:40770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkvFL-000318-DQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:40:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel On 2016-09-16 02:29, David Craven wrote: >> I just wanted to point out that this will not work for any cpan >> modules >> that are destined for (gnu packages perl) if they don't use the Perl >> license. > > I think that gnu/packages/perl.scm should be updated to use the > license: prefix. I think that the importer should suggest a best > practice. > > WDYT? AFAIK we haven't established module-level global symbol prefixing as best practice. In gnu/packages/perl.scm it's unnecessary. -- `~Eric