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Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages |
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Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:57:15 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 03:22:03PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
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> I propose to generalizing the specification [1,2] as we already have for
> Perl, Python and Java for most programming languages. In short:
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> 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.
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> I quickly scanned the current package definitions and found:
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> 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? ;)