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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 40549@debbugs.gnu.org, tomz@freedommail.ch
Subject: bug#40549: More usability issues:
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 20:53:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8qrwts1.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ0406hPp5437nYePZ1cZW7aw_6+oqdnca2Jq8SqgyT38w@mail.gmail.com>

Dear zimoun,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> It would like it works.  And to do so, I accept that "guix package -I
> regexp -p /tmp/profile" does not anymore and would be replaced by
> "guix package -Iregexp -p /tmp/profile" which already works (as
> specified by SRFI-37).

Wow, this surprised me. I expected

   guix package -Iregexp

to be equivalent to

   guix package -I -r -e -g -e -x -p

which is how getopt long works in the shell.

> Today, the Guix manual is lying because the optional argument for
> short-name is *not* optional depending on its position.  And that
> leads to surprise:
>
>    guix package -I -p /tmp/profile # fails
>    guix package -p /tmp/profile -I # works
>
> And this is really really annoying!  It is hard to understand why such
> different behaviour.

Yes, this seems annoying.

> Instead of what I am proposing, what do you suggest?

What I would suggets would break -Iregexp and as such deviate from
SRFI-37, so it wouldn’t be optimal.

It would first need another SRFI so it’s no shortterm fix :-)

The commandline handling I want is this:
https://www.draketo.de/english/free-software/shell-argument-parsing

But I don’t yet have a good way to do it in Guile.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken




  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-11  9:23 bug#40549: [usability] revert last generation Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-23 19:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-23 19:51 ` bug#40549: More usability issues: Tom via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-24  8:28   ` zimoun
2020-05-12  0:27     ` zimoun
2020-05-12  8:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-12  9:54         ` Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-12 11:35           ` zimoun
2020-05-12 16:23             ` Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-12 18:08               ` zimoun
2020-05-12 20:19                 ` Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-12 21:38                   ` zimoun
2020-05-13  6:22                     ` Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-13 16:32                   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-05-13 18:02                     ` zimoun
2020-05-13 18:53                       ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2020-05-14  9:08                         ` zimoun
2020-05-12 14:10           ` zimoun
2020-05-12 10:38         ` zimoun
2020-05-12 13:58         ` zimoun
2020-05-14  8:15     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-14  9:13       ` zimoun
2020-05-14 14:25       ` bug#40549: Fix -p profile -p profile -I zimoun
2020-05-12 13:03 ` bug#40549: proposal for 'process-actions' zimoun
2020-05-12 16:26   ` Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-08 12:49 ` bug#40549: [usability] revert last generation zimoun

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