From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rubygems updater.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:56:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjoad0gjmo.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568BCBDB.1010308@uq.edu.au>
Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>>> We could even default this to the expected name of the library guessed
>>> from the name of the package when #:import is not given. However, this
>>> would unfortunately break packages that have been written outside of
>>> Guix, so I imagine you don't feel this is a good idea.
>> We could choose the package name as a default value, but often that’s
>> not going to work, notably because of the “ruby-” prefix.
>>
>> WDYT?
> Removing the "ruby-" from the package name sounds like a reasonable
> default, but won't work every time because some imports use underscores
> where some use dashes e.g. "minitest-pretty_diff".
For R packages we’re using something like this
(properties `((upstream-name . "gridExtra")))
to hold the upstream name. The Guix package is called “r-gridextra”.
Maybe that’s acceptable for Ruby packages too?
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 8:27 [PATCH] Add rubygems updater Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-01 9:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-01 11:18 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-01 11:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-01 18:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-02 0:11 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-02 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-03 0:50 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-03 14:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-05 13:57 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-05 14:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-01-08 18:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-02 3:43 ` Pjotr Prins
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