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Re: bioinformatics.scm vs bioconductor.scm ?
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
Re: bioinformatics.scm vs bioconductor.scm ? |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:36:41 +0100 |
Dear,
Thank you for your explanations.
And sorry if I am still slow to understand.
> > What is the convention about license ?
> > (license name) or (license license:name)
>
> Just about this point: This is not a "convention", this is part of the
> language definition of Guile, the underlying Scheme implementation:
I understand this. :-)
>
> In the module gnu/packes/cran.scm (and many others too) you find:
>
> (define-module (gnu packages cran)
> #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
> #:use-module (guix packages)
> [...]
> )
>
> That means: use everything from module "guix licenses" and prefix it
> with "license:". So, in the cran module, you must use "license:name" to
> use the publicly defined "name" from the "guix licenses" module.
Ok, but for example this convention about CRAN is not consistent with
the importer. :-)
guix import cran corpcor -r
fills the license field with (license gpl3+) and not (license license:gpl3+)
In other words, why the cran.scm needs a prefix for the license field?
> In other packages that import "guix licenses" without the prefix, you
> use "name" directly. See gnu/packages/scsi.scm for an example.
Ok.
But there is a convention or an explanation why some packages use a
prefix e.g. cran.scm and other not e.g scsi.scm?
Thank you again for your explanations.
Best regards,
simon