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doc: Add a section on perl modules in the packaging guidelines. 

* doc/guix.texi (Perl modules): New section explaining the naming of perl
    modules.
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Andreas Enge 2014-05-11 10:43:51 +02:00
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@copying
Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Andreas Enge@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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* Package Naming:: What's in a name?
* Version Numbers:: When the name is not enough.
* Python Modules:: Taming the snake.
* Perl Modules:: Little pearls.
@end menu
@node Software Freedom
@ -2796,8 +2797,8 @@ Both are usually the same and correspond to the lowercase conversion of the
project name chosen upstream. For instance, the GNUnet project is packaged
as @code{gnunet}. We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages,
unless these are already part of the official project name. But see
@ref{Python Modules} for special rules concerning modules for
the Python language.
@pxref{Python Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning
modules for the Python and Perl languages.
@node Version Numbers
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@code{python-dateutil} and @code{python2-dateutil}.
@node Perl Modules
@subsection Perl Modules
Perl programs standing for themselves are named as any other package,
using the lowercase upstream name.
For Perl packages containing a single class, we use the lowercase class name,
replace all occurrences of @code{::} by dashes and prepend the prefix
@code{perl-}.
So the class @code{XML::Parser} becomes @code{perl-xml-parser}.
Modules containing several classes keep their lowercase upstream name and
are also prepended by @code{perl-}. Such modules tend to have the word
@code{perl} somewhere in their name, which gets dropped in favor of the
prefix. For instance, @code{libwww-perl} becomes @code{perl-libwww}.