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Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:56:15 +0200
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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> 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

What do you mean by =E2=80=9Cscheme=E2=80=9D?  Scheme packages are usually =
not
interchangeable among Scheme implementations, so we=E2=80=99d have
guile !=3D racket !=3D MIT Scheme, etc.

> smalltalk: 0
> tcl: 0

I=E2=80=99m all for it, especially given that this is pretty much the status
quo.  :-)

So, patches welcome for the 5-or-so packages above.

A common exception to the rule is packages that offer a CLI/GUI that is
a common entry point to the package=E2=80=93e.g., Guix, Unison, patches, Pi=
us,
Xmonad, Awesome.  IOW, the rule would apply to libraries only.

There may be other cases where it=E2=80=99d be useful to make exceptions.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.