Hi! Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: [...] >> However, I’ve come to think that we don’t necessarily need a separate >> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space. > > Do we need a namespace "distro"? So far, there is only the sub-namespace > "distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic > "packages"? You mean (guix packages ...) or (packages ...)? The latter seems like a bad idea, because it could collide with something else, and it’s not sufficiently descriptive (it could be confused with Guile’s guildhall packaging system, for instance.) > The distro would then simply be called "guix", no? > > Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with an > exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen > appeal :-) Heh, OK. Food for thought. :-) Ludo’.
