Subject: [bug#50812] [PATCH v2 1/5] gnu: Add proj 7.2.1.

From: Felix Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:18:31 +0000

On 9/26/21 10:34 PM, Xinglu Chen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26 2021, Felix Gruber wrote:
> 
>> * gnu/packages/geo.scm (proj.7): New variable.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/geo.scm | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/geo.scm b/gnu/packages/geo.scm
>> index 9d4a1a8955..c10b93d83f 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/geo.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/geo.scm
>> @@ -511,6 +511,45 @@ fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities.")
>>                     license:mpl1.1
>>                     license:public-domain))))
>>  
>> +(define-public proj.7
> 
> Hyphens are typically used to denote a specific version of a package,
> e.g., ghc-8.8.

I've named the package proj.7 as there is already a proj.4 package for
an old API-incompatible version of proj. But you're right that this is
inconsistent with how most version-specific packages are named.

Maybe we should rename proj.4? I wonder if there was a reason for naming
it this way in the first place?

Cheers,
Felix