From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:02:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppylvprd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hajxsx74.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:49:51 +0400")
Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:
>>> I noticed that 'guile-gnome' has two 'doc-url' fields. How can I handle
>>> this? (I ignored it for now.)
>
>> I think it’s a mistake in this case (could you report it to Karl?). It
>> seems safe to ignore.
>
> Karl said:
>
> "[...] In general doc-url can occur more than once. I did that when a
> package has an overall documentation page and also many significant
> manuals. Besides guile-gnome, emacs is a prime example.
>
> In theory, I guess logo: could be duplicated [too] in the event of a
> package having more than one logo, but in practice that has never
> happened.
>
> [...]
>
> I thought of another field that can be repeated, too: doc-shop.
> E.g., in libc."
>
> So, should we create another field for 'doc-url'?
What about calling that field ‘doc-urls’ (plural) and having it hold a
list of URLs?
> And what's the best way to handle 'doc-shop'? Can we ignore it?
What is it? Perhaps we don’t need it for our purposes?
>> Never ever write ‘get-’ for getters. ;-) It provides no useful
>> information. See <package> and other records, as examples.
>
> I know; it's easy to end up with something like:
>
> getObject.getSetter.getString.getField()
>
> I found (name get-employee-name) in the manual and decided that it's a
> convention.
Argh, I just saw that, it’s a shame! ;-)
Seriously, nobody uses that convention. The convention is really
‘employee-name’.
> What about 'set-' for setters?
We don’t use them in Guix. (The convention is ‘set-employee-name!’,
with an exclamation mark.)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-22 5:29 [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Add 'find-package-with-attrs' and '%package-list' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-02-22 10:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-06 18:54 ` [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Replace 'official-gnu-packages' with 'find-packages' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-06 23:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-16 19:30 ` [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-16 23:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-22 1:37 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-22 10:08 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-03-22 12:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-22 12:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-26 20:22 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-26 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-26 20:59 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-26 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-27 6:05 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-27 10:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-31 22:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-26 20:49 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-26 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-03-28 2:08 ` [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add " Nikita Karetnikov
2013-03-28 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-28 22:40 ` Nikita Karetnikov
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