Re: Add guile-minikanren

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

>> I named it guile-minikanren which isn't really accurate.  I'm not sure
>> how else I could name it though?  I'd be open to suggestions!
>
> There is a chapter in the documentation about this:
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Package-Naming
> The main idea is to not think too much, but to simply use the upstream
> project name. Here this seems to be "minikanren" without "guile-".
> We have special rules for perl and python; maybe we also need a special
> rule for guile?

I think the issue here is that miniKanren is a project of its own, and
this is a Guile port by a third party, so the package probably shouldn't
squat the name "minikanren".

IMO "guile-foo" is sensible for packages that install a Guile module,
akin to "perl-foo" and "python-foo".

Taylan