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From: Wojtek Kosior via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: poetry: python-poetry?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:10:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230727201038.294f6309.koszko@koszko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZMIVIPFXrGeMM-yP@jurong>

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> The idea is that "libraries" (or "modules") start with python-, while
> "applications" do not emphasize the language they are written in. Calibre,
> for instance, also is not called python-calibre.

In this case it seems there are quite a few packages that go against
this convention. 'python-pip', for example, is mostly used as a CLI
*application*.

This has been actually causing me confusion. At some point I was
wondering how I should call a package I was writing and it seems I
erroneously added "python-" taking example from other packages :/

Wojtek

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:56:32 +0200 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> Am Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 09:25:43PM -0700 schrieb Andy Tai:
> > curious poetry is not named python-poetry in Guix as following
> > convention of most python packages  
> 
> See here:
>    https://guix.gnu.org/de/manual/devel/en/html_node/Python-Modules.html
> 
> The idea is that "libraries" (or "modules") start with python-, while
> "applications" do not emphasize the language they are written in. Calibre,
> for instance, also is not called python-calibre.
> 
> Of course with script languages there is no clear technical barrier;
> but a package with lots of binaries will not start with python-, while
> software that is mainly used in lines "import xyz;" tends to be called
> python-something.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-27 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-27  4:25 poetry: python-poetry? Andy Tai
2023-07-27  6:56 ` Andreas Enge
2023-07-27 18:10   ` Wojtek Kosior via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2023-07-31  2:05     ` Hilton Chain
2023-07-31  2:05     ` Hilton Chain
2023-08-05  8:39       ` Hartmut Goebel
2023-07-27  7:03 ` Lars-Dominik Braun

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