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Re: haskell-mode
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: haskell-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:50:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa (2015-08-03 10:50 +0300) wrote:
[...]
>>> From my point of view, if we want to be consistent we should use the
>>> same prefix for all packages providing Emacs libraries/extensions.
>>> Choices based on feelings are just going to make things confusing.
Agreed.
So I agree we should rename the other packages as well. The problem
that will make it disruptive is that the UIs don’t know about renames,
so ‘guix package -u’ for instance will never upgrade ‘geiser’ etc. and
people may not notice.
Maybe we should fix that first.
A simple idea that comes to mind would be to have definitions like:
(define-syntax-rule (define-deprecated-alias variable pkg old-name)
(define-public variable
(package
(inherit pkg)
(name old-name)
(properties `((deprecated-alias . ,pkg))))))
;; The new package is called “emacs-geiser”; previous it was called
;; “geiser”.
(define-deprecated-alias old-geiser geiser "geiser")
and somehow have (guix profiles) handle it nicely. That is, installing
“geiser” would automatically install “emacs-geiser” and emit a warning;
upgrading a profile containing “geiser” would upgrade to “emacs-geiser”
and emit a warning.
Any takers?
Ludo’.