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[PATCH 2/2]: gnu: common-lisp-jupyter: Update to 0.1.0-3.ba9f0e7

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From: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
To: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 48485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#48485] [PATCH 1/2]: gnu: Add shasht
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 12:50:38 -0400 (EDT)

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

> Jack Hill <jackhill <at> 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

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