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Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:48:34 +0200
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 03:22:03PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I propose to generalizing the specification [1,2] as we already have for
>> Perl, Python and Java for most programming languages. In short:
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> I quickly scanned the current package definitions and found:
>>=20
>> 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
>
> What about C? Do we need c-linux-libre? ;)

Furthermore, what about multiple-language packages?  I=E2=80=99m thinking of
=E2=80=98c+guile-guile=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98c+siod+python-gimp=E2=80=99.

;-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.