Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-16 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 at 15:54, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I think this will make searching easier because not everything has an > > obvious name, and when I `guix search` for a purpose (like drawing) I > > often get unrelated results. > > I don’t think the module hierarchy should be

Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jesse Gibbons writes: > Interesting. So is it worth trying to organize the guix packages or do > you think it will get too complicated? I'm primarily bothered by the > number of small files with only one package definition and the > inconsistency in how packages are organized. I would rather a

Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-15 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:38:34 +0200 Robert Vollmert wrote: > > On 15. Jul 2019, at 19:21, Jesse Gibbons > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:54:10 +0200 > > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> Jesse Gibbons skribis: > >> > >>> I noticed that a few files have only one

Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-15 Thread Robert Vollmert
> On 15. Jul 2019, at 19:21, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:54:10 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Jesse Gibbons skribis: >> >>> I noticed that a few files have only one package definition and are >>> named for that package. I think these packages can be

Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-15 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:54:10 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Jesse Gibbons skribis: > > > I noticed that a few files have only one package definition and are > > named for that package. I think these packages can be organized > > better. Might I suggest the following rules: > > > >

Re: Organizing packages

2019-07-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Jesse Gibbons skribis: > I noticed that a few files have only one package definition and are > named for that package. I think these packages can be organized better. > Might I suggest the following rules: > > 1. if a package is a library for a particular language $LANG (like > Python,

Organizing packages

2019-07-09 Thread Jesse Gibbons
I noticed that a few files have only one package definition and are named for that package. I think these packages can be organized better. Might I suggest the following rules: 1. if a package is a library for a particular language $LANG (like Python, Perl, etc.) it goes in ${LANG}-xyz.scm. If it