Hi Cayetano, If you think renaming the module is justified, feel free to submit a patch addressing your concern, along with a rationale like the one in your email. Someone with commit access may or may not accept it eventually. (FYI I don't have a commit access.)
Cheers, Bost Le sam. 8 févr. 2025 à 12:02, Cayetano Santos <csant...@inventati.org> a écrit : > Hi Guix, > > I need to point out a (not that relevant after all) issue which > bothers me a bit, regarding the gnu/package/fpga.scm module. Simply > put, it doesn’t necessarily concern fpga related software, and so its > name may be misleading. Electronics would be a much better choice: I > ignore this renaming modules might be an issue. > > I plan to contribute extra software to this module (siliconcompiler, > to mention just one): as you may see, its use goes well beyond the > fpga domain, which remains a sub-field of the more large umbrella of > the electronics. > > Last but not least, renaming fpga to electronics would make guix > compatible with guix-science, where we follow this criteria. > > Regards, > > -- > Cayetano Santos
