From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:03:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87d0owiwkp.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87sgxt6ijv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <9b157f660f14ccf542cfa4fe793cc3db@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkrC-0002ve-7l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:03:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkrA-0001zX-Ej for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:03:46 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o53.zoho.com ([135.84.80.218]:21734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkr9-0001ph-TP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:03:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <9b157f660f14ccf542cfa4fe793cc3db@riseup.net> 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: swedebugia@riseup.net Cc: gabrielhondet@gmail.com, guix-devel swedebugia@riseup.net writes: > On 2019-01-16 09:47, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> Hi Gabriel! >>=20 >> Thanks for contributing Gauche to Guix! >> I've noticed something strange however: in the description, you mention >>=20 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> There are currently 58 packages available. >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >>=20 >> Isn't it shortsighted? If another package is added upstream, then the >> description won't match anymore. >>=20 >> Why mentioning it at all? > > It was my idea during review. I think it is a good idea to give the user > a hint about the number of available packages that exist in the > ecosystems/package-managers we package. I=E2=80=99d prefer to not include numbers like that. --=20 Ricardo