[bug#48485] [PATCH 1/2]: gnu: Add shasht

[Jack Hill]

On Tue, 18 May 2021, Guillaume Le Vaillant wrote:

> Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:
>
> > Thanks for working on this. However, I have a question about the synopsis:
> >
> > > +      (synopsis "Common Lisp JSON reading and writing for the Kzinti")
> >
> > As a native American English speaker, I find Kzinti to be an obscure word.
> > I didn't know what it meant when I first read it. Doing a search online
> > wasn't that enlightening. The best thing I could fine talked about alien cats
> > [0]. Do you think the synopsis could be improved in the future to more clearly
> > say what the software is for and improve search results? Perhaps shortening it
> > to "Common Lisp JSON reading and writing" would be sufficient?
> >
> > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin
> >
> > Best,
> > Jack
>
> Before pushing Sharlatan's patch, I changed the synopsis to "Common Lisp
> JSON reading and writing library". I also didn't know that word, found
> that it was probably a reference to a cat-looking warrior from space in
> a series of science fiction novels, and concluded that it was not
> really related to JSON processing.

Happy to here that I wasn't alone in thinking that. I guess it's time to 
`guix pull` and benefit from the new packages.

Thanks!
Jack