From: "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de>
To: "Andreas Enge" <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: "Simon Tournier" <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transformations Shell Syntax
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 17:20:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0de0483c74dca1138df849b8fd2b1193@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGzNovpChBRb1jTn@jurong>
> What disturbs me with your suggestion is that it reuses the same syntax
> that is already used for a different purpose. So in a sense you do
> "operator overloading", and the same command line then means different
> things depending on whether the package version is already provided by
> Guix or not.
Yes, I see how that can be an CLI smell and "not Guixonic".
Would be sweet to have something like it but I realize the negative of dirtying the current API's explicitness to get lower verbosity invocations at the shell prompt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-23 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 6:43 Transformations Shell Syntax jgart
2023-05-23 8:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-05-23 9:39 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-23 13:24 ` jgart
2023-05-23 13:55 ` Andreas Enge
2023-05-23 14:12 ` jgart
2023-05-23 14:22 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-23 14:28 ` Andreas Enge
2023-05-23 17:20 ` jgart [this message]
2023-05-24 3:06 ` Ryan Prior
2023-05-26 15:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-27 17:07 ` John Kehayias
2023-07-02 19:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-05 20:23 ` John Kehayias
2023-07-03 0:01 ` jgart
2023-07-16 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-23 13:00 ` Hartmut Goebel
2023-08-16 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
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