Re: Python package naming: Dots vs hyphens

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:30:21AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> I think hyphens is the way to go here.
> 

I search for [!#%&'()*,./:;?@_{}] in the output of

florian@florianmflorian@florianmacbook ~/git/guix-artwork/website$ 
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=.:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH guile -c '(write (map (@ (guix packages) 
package-name) ((@ (apps packages data) all-packages))))'

and see a few packages with periods, including but not limited to
python packages.

Perhaps a change to importers like this would be appropriate, would it
not?

diff --git a/guix/import/utils.scm b/guix/import/utils.scm
index 4694b6e7ef..6fecf929ec 100644
--- a/guix/import/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/import/utils.scm
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ to in the (guix licenses) module, or #f if there is no such 
known license."
   (assoc-ref licenses license))
 
 (define (snake-case str)
-  "Return a downcased version of the string STR where underscores are replaced
+  "Return a downcased version of the string STR where punctuation is replaced
 with dashes."
-  (string-join (string-split (string-downcase str) #\_) "-"))
+  (string-join (string-split (string-downcase str) char-set:punctuation) "-"))
 
 (define (beautify-description description)
   "Improve the package DESCRIPTION by turning a beginning sentence fragment




(Plus documentation in doc/guix.texi.)

Regards,
Florian