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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Move cursynth to music.scm
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:10:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151230011002.GA9185@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fjwzv7e.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:33:25AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> 
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 05:17:15PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:09:09 -0500
> >>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> > I think it would be better for this software synthesizer to be in
> >>> > music.scm.
> >>> > 
> >>> > Thoughts?
> >>> 
> >>> IIRC, the original thought was that many GNU packages have their own
> >>> modules, so this was done for cursynth as well.
> >>
> >> Okay, sure.
> >
> > I think it would be nice to have cursynth in “music.scm”.
> 
> +1
> 
> >> To be honest, I don't understand the reasoning behind grouping packages
> >> into modules. Is it just for humans or is there some technical reason
> >> for it?
> >
> > It’s mostly for humans AFAIU.  Personally, I prefer try to avoid a
> > proliferation of one-off modules; maybe because I don’t like the
> > boilerplate (license header, module definition with imports, adding the
> > module to “gnu-system.am”).
> 
> Same here.
> 
> More modules also lead to more I/O for the various commands.

That's a good reason.

I'll apply the patch if there are no objections.

> 
> Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-28 23:09 [PATCH 0/1] Move cursynth to music.scm Leo Famulari
2015-12-28 23:09 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Move cursynth to (gnu packages music) Leo Famulari
2015-12-28 23:17 ` [PATCH 0/1] Move cursynth to music.scm Eric Bavier
2015-12-29  4:32   ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-29  7:08     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-12-29  9:14       ` Alex Kost
2015-12-29 10:50       ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-29 23:33       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-30  1:10         ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2015-12-31  2:31           ` Leo Famulari

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