From 39356057bce20f74120b6d227567a943556717cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leo Famulari Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:31:59 -0400 Subject: doc: Update guidance about Python 2 package variants. * doc/contributing.texi (Python Modules): Don't recommend adding Python-2 package variants by default. --- doc/contributing.texi | 11 ++++++----- doc/guix.texi | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index afcc030b4f..31b875f817 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -612,11 +612,12 @@ To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages, it seems desirable that the name of a package for a Python module contains the word @code{python}. -Some modules are compatible with only one version of Python, others with both. -If the package Foo compiles only with Python 3, we name it -@code{python-foo}; if it compiles only with Python 2, we name it -@code{python2-foo}. If it is compatible with both versions, we create two -packages with the corresponding names. +Some modules are compatible with only one version of Python, others with +both. If the package Foo is compiled with Python 3, we name it +@code{python-foo}. If it is compiled with Python 2, we name it +@code{python2-foo}. Packages should be added when they are necessary; +we don't add Python 2 variants of the package unless we are going to use +them. If a project already contains the word @code{python}, we drop this; for instance, the module python-dateutil is packaged under the names diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 8acae26b9a..4658c6f5eb 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 Leo Famulari@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Leo Famulari@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ricardo Wurmus@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018 Chris Marusich@* -- cgit v1.2.3