Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...] >> Regarding the aesthetics, I’d be in favor of using @ for the version: > > You mean like npm... :) Possibly, but I’m not that proficient at npm. ;-) I think I’ve seen another tool use that convention, though I don’t remember which one (maybe Spack?). It’s more that “guile@1.8” reads like “Guile at [version] 1.8.” >> guile@1.8 >> guile@1.8:doc >> >> I’m not sure if we should also allow: >> >> guile:doc@1.8 >> >> Thoughts? > > I'm OK with that. Since choosing the reserved characters is not a > technical decision, maybe we could poll users? Yes, why not (bikeshedding ahead! :-)). Would you like to email guix-devel about it? Note that it only affects the CLI. The Emacs and Web UIs won’t see any difference. Ludo’.
