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* Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
@ 2016-04-24 13:22 Hartmut Goebel
  2016-04-24 16:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Hartmut Goebel @ 2016-04-24 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

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

Maybe we should extend this even to frameworks like node.js?

Comments are welcome.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi#n11005
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-04/threads.html#00551

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel          | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com               |
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* Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
@ 2016-04-28  8:45 alírio eyng
  2016-04-29 18:31 ` alírio eyng
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: alírio eyng @ 2016-04-28  8:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hartmut Goebel:
>Am 24.04.2016 um 20:57 schrieb Leo Famulari:
>> What about C? Do we need c-linux-libre?
...
>why e.g. libsodium does not need to be prefixed by "c-"
the c bias is unix heritage.

c-linux-libre-headers is good to contrast with cl-hurd[0] or pyhurd[1]
similarly there are cryptography libraries for other languages[2]

i agree to prefix every package which only interface is for a specific
programming language.

[0]http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/flaviocruz.html
[1]http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cryptography_libraries#Cryptography_libraries_and_their_origin

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2016-04-24 16:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-24 18:57 ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-24 22:13   ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-04-28 11:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
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2016-04-29 18:31 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-29 23:36   ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-30  6:38     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-02  7:50       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-02  9:33         ` ng0
2016-05-02 18:33         ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-06  2:45           ` alírio eyng
2016-05-06  6:49             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-06 10:20               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-06 20:12             ` Andreas Enge
2016-05-07  0:32               ` John Darrington
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