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Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages


From: Hartmut Goebel
Subject: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:22:03 +0200
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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#00551

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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