From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20160424185715.GC7737@jasmine> References: <571CC87B.8010603@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auPDc-00074X-Q7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auPDX-0007q7-OE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57:20 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:60247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auPDX-0007q3-KV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <571CC87B.8010603@crazy-compilers.com> 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: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 03:22:03PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I propose to generalizing the specification [1,2] as we already have for > Perl, Python and Java for most programming languages. In short: > > Package names should be prefixed with the name of the language and if > the package name already contains the name of the language, it gets > removed there. > > I quickly scanned the current package definitions and found: > > guile: 2 package to change > haskell: ca. 2 package to be changed > julia: 0 > d (lcd.xscm): 0 > nqc (lego.scm): 0 --> prefix "lego-"? OTOH this is a commercial brand > lua: 0 > m4: 0 > ocaml: 1 > ruby: 0 > r (statistics.scm): 0 > scheme: 1 or 2 > smalltalk: 0 > tcl: 0 What about C? Do we need c-linux-libre? ;)