Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

[Sharlatan Hellseher]

Hi,

I've accidentally included other patch to this series. I've re-sent it under the
new issue number https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66627.

Thanks,
Oleg


On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 19:17, Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Wilko Meyer
>> w@wmeyer.eu



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