From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:03 +0200 Message-ID: <571CC87B.8010603@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auJzH-00014K-Cw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:22:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auJzC-0002fk-Cy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:22:11 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:57297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auJzC-0002fe-6z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:22:06 -0400 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qt94Y3pS1z3hjkB for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qt94Y3jDGzvhNJ for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ns8O3WW_SXn5 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hermia.goebel-consult.de (ppp-188-174-140-186.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.140.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.110.2] (lenashee.goebel-consult.de [192.168.110.2]) by hermia.goebel-consult.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E885B6010B for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:03 +0200 (CEST) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org 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#00= 551 --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |