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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Subject: Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment
 proposed deprecation mechanism
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:55:54 +0100
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Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
>> Maybe I miss a point. It is not: "watch out, this will do something
>> else in the future" but "watch out, this was doing something else in
>> the past and the change happened the <date> in <commit>".
>
> Concrete example: I am writing a tutorial about using Guix for
> reproducible research. It shows several uses of "guix environment", some
> of them without '=E2=80=93add-hoc' or '=E2=80=93inputs-of'. I know my exa=
mples will
> cease to work in a few months. What am I supposed to do about this?

This is the point where we need to ask ourselves:

     Should Guix be volatile software?
     http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/

Also: Software developers should avoid traumatic changes
      https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/26/Avoid-traumatic-changes.html

Best wishes,
Arne
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