Re: Naming of node packages with @ and /

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

On 2018-11-28 00:10, Catonano wrote:
> 
> 
> Il giorno mar 27 nov 2018 alle ore 21:58 swedebugia 
> <swedebugia@riseup.net <mailto:swedebugia@riseup.net>> ha scritto:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     There are some crazy naming going on in the node-community. How do we
>     deal with this?
> 
>     Note: there is another package called "babel-core" so just
>     stripping/replacing the weird characters won't work well.
> 
>     Any ideas?
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> I think those are the so called "scoped packages"
> 
> https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope
> 
> https://nitayneeman.com/posts/understanding-scoped-packages-in-npm/

Aha! This makes sense. The importer and guix package will have to handle 
this.

E.g. this way:

guix import npm -S babel babe-core
where -S is "scope".

We will probably have to add a field or property to our (package) record 
stating that it is part of a scope:
(properties
`((scope . babel)))

guix package will have to support it too:
guix package -i -S babel babel-core

What do you think? Any better ways to handle this?

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Cheers
Swedebugia