From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
Cc: 29814@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29814: impossible to pass spaces in GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 22:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7ya79s3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cdb8d9eb-880a-ca9d-788e-b96ad9da42e7@uni-bremen.de> (Martin Castillo's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:58:06 +0100")
Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de> skribis:
> guix/util.scm:(arguments-from-envirenment-variable) uses
> char-set:graphic to split the string. this makes it impossible to pass
> spaces in the arguments.
>
> This makes it impossible to pass more than one substitute-url via the
> environment.
Yes, this is annoying. I think --substitute-urls (plural) was
misguided. Instead we should instead have --substitute-url (singular),
which could be repeated several times. That would solve the troubles
with spaces.
During a transition period we could keep accepting --substitute-urls.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-22 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 17:58 bug#29814: impossible to pass spaces in GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS Martin Castillo
2017-12-22 21:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-23 3:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-23 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-27 16:37 ` Martin Castillo
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