Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au> writes:
>>> We could even default this to the expected name of the library guessed
>>> from the name of the package when #:import is not given. However, this
>>> would unfortunately break packages that have been written outside of
>>> Guix, so I imagine you don't feel this is a good idea.
>> We could choose the package name as a default value, but often that’s
>> not going to work, notably because of the “ruby-” prefix.
>>
>> WDYT?
> Removing the "ruby-" from the package name sounds like a reasonable
> default, but won't work every time because some imports use underscores
> where some use dashes e.g. "minitest-pretty_diff".
For R packages we’re using something like this
(properties `((upstream-name . "gridExtra")))
to hold the upstream name. The Guix package is called “r-gridextra”.
Maybe that’s acceptable for Ruby packages too?
~~ Ricardo
