~ruther/guix-local: gnu: cl-slynk: Explain some naming choices.

75e8b3af69dc3b1544c26ddd52bddb225f217d99 — Andy Patterson 9 years ago 14afc7b

gnu: cl-slynk: Explain some naming choices.

* gnu/packages/lisp.scm (sbcl-slynk-boot0): Add comments explaining its
purpose and the reason its package-name must differ from its name.

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1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M gnu/packages/lisp.scm

M gnu/packages/lisp.scm => gnu/packages/lisp.scm +5 -1

@@ 904,11 904,15 @@ productive, customizable lisp based systems.")
       (outputs '("out"))
       (arguments '()))))
 
+;; The slynk that users expect to install includes all of slynk's contrib
+;; modules.  Therefore, we build the base module and all contribs first; then
+;; we expose the union of these as `sbcl-slynk'.  The following variable
+;; describes the base module.
 (define sbcl-slynk-boot0
   (let ((revision "1")
         (commit "5706cd45d484a4f25795abe8e643509d31968aa2"))
     (package
-      (name "sbcl-slynk")
+      (name "sbcl-slynk") ; name must refer to the system name for now
       (version (string-append "1.0.0-beta-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
       (source
        (origin