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commit 75e8b3af69dc3b1544c26ddd52bddb225f217d99
Author: Andy Patterson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Apr 3 09:01:19 2017 -0400
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.
---
gnu/packages/lisp.scm | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
index b5d5e19..6b4a177 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
@@ -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
