Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

[Sharlatan Hellseher]

Hi,

I'm about to create golang-check and golang-build modules, which both are core and would be in used by others. As Maxim mentioned, the most time consumption task would be migrating copyrights header properly.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2023, 22:25 Wilko Meyer, <w@wmeyer.eu> wrote:

Hi,

Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> writes:

> I think it's time to split (gnu packages golang) into some logical groups, see
> Python, Lisp for example.
>
> Thoughts?

IMHO this sounds like a good idea as it would improve the
maintainability of golang packages in the long run. We have 487 package
definitions right now:

(~/devel/guix-devel/gnu/packages) λ rg -c 'define-public' golang.scm
487

which already seems quite laborous to split into logical groups (while
getting the copyright information right as well and maintaining the
gitlog history etc.); so it probably classifies as a task that should be
tackled sooner than later as it'll cause more work over time the more
golang packages exist.

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Kind regards,

Wilko Meyer
w@wmeyer.eu