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From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH / modules puzzle
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:00:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180511070050.oijp5l6mm5smtvuk@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180510232635.ncez2ai4736cysfd@abyayala>

Nils Gillmann transcribed 1.4K bytes:
> Nils Gillmann transcribed 2.1K bytes:
> > Okay, here's what I learned:
> > 
> > * except for source code, the modules itself in Guile aren't very
> > * detailed documented. The documentation is good, but...  ... it's
> > * nowhere mentioned that you can have a module (foo bar baz) and
> > * possibly also (foo bar baz kim) but (foo baz bar bar) will lead to
> > * the error I described.
> > 
> > So until I read into the core of Guile, I have 2 questions:
> > 
> > 1. Is there a module name maximum length? -> So far I have encountered
> > very short module names in the wild, 3 the longest.
> > 
> > 2. Is this really a module length problem? -> I have a functional set
> > of packages elsewhere, my non-core packages, named like (ports editors
> > foo foo) and so forth and they cause no problems. It's just weird to
> > me that the modules in ports and elsewhere work but in pkgs I can't
> > dissect the exact problem so far. I'm okay with any namespace, so
> > I'll simply remove the last element of the module names.
> > 
> > I'd like to improve documentations or other relevant places if
> > what I experienced is some kind of corner case in module naming,
> > be it in Guix or Guile... or just to note what to avoid with
> > regards to modules.
> 
> 
> Actually the problem is not really module names I just found out.

Here's what's happening now:

I took my perl module which is in "pkgs/lang-perl/perl.scm", which contains our basic perl packages,
and moved ( + renamed ) them into (core lang-perl perl) in a new directory.

If I run GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH="/home/user/src/core" package -s mc I get results for query "mc".
When I run GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH="/home/user/src/core" package --show=perl I get the same message
as initially pointed out in the opening post.

> But I'm still curious about any possible guile module naming related limits
> and hints from people working longer with Guile.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-11  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-01 22:39 a GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH / modules puzzle Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03  5:16 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-03  5:36   ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03  7:23     ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-03  8:30       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-10 22:27         ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-10 23:26           ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-11  7:00             ` Nils Gillmann [this message]
2018-05-11  7:19               ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-12 13:43               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-12 19:45                 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-13  5:15                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-11  7:36   ` Nils Gillmann

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