Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> But there’s no tool that really “interprets” of what’s in the >> ‘description’ field[*]. What do you mean? >> [*] Actually, ‘fill-paragraph’ from (guix ui), which is used for the >> output of ‘guix pa

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > But there’s no tool that really “interprets” of what’s in the > ‘description’ field[*]. What do you mean? > [*] Actually, ‘fill-paragraph’ from (guix ui), which is used for the > output of ‘guix package --search’ does some very

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Thanks for the comments, all implemented and pushed. Thanks! > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Also, two spaces after end-of-sentence periods. > > Just as a side note (side-note? sidenote?), in texinfo an end of sentence > period immed

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Thanks for the comments, all implemented and pushed. On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Also, two spaces after end-of-sentence periods. Just as a side note (side-note? sidenote?), in texinfo an end of sentence period immediately followed by a line break is interpre

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 09:24:42PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> All very reasonable. Let us go for this (and I should add a section to the >> packaging guidelines later on). > > Months later, here is a proposed patch in British English. Do we have a rule > on which spelli

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:20:33AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:56:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > (I feel like starting a bikeshed discussion ;-).) > whichever, "bike shed" is two words. Ah, a German mistake! Andreas

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:56:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 09:24:42PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > All very reasonable. Let us go for this (and I should add a section to the > packaging guidelines later on). Months later, here is a proposed patc

Re: Perl modules

2014-05-11 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 09:24:42PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > All very reasonable. Let us go for this (and I should add a section to the > packaging guidelines later on). Months later, here is a proposed patch in British English. Do we have a rule on which spelling to use? British is what I lear

Re: Perl modules

2013-12-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:56:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I would add the ‘perl-’ prefix, unless the package stands alone (for > instance, Hydra would be called ‘hydra’, not ‘perl-hydra’.) Yes, that would be as for python. > For the rest of the name, I would take the Perl module name. S

Re: Perl modules

2013-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > it looks like I have stumbled upon an enormous dependency tree: > > For kdelibs, I would like soprano; > for soprano, I would like redland; > for redland, I need rasqal; > for some tests of rasqal to work, I need perl-xml-dom; > for perl-xml-dom, I need libwww-perl; > for