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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Nguyễn Gia Phong" <cnx@loang.net>
Cc: Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are declarative app configs worth it?
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:50:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r5glxdv.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CXYD6MBM4PNT.3OPY3YWIRL5B5@loang.net>


Nguyễn Gia Phong <cnx@loang.net> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> [1. text/plain]
> On 2023-12-26 at 15:56+01:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> On 2023-12-26 at 14:53+01:00, Sergey Trofimov wrote:
>> > - adding it to guix increases maintenance burden: new versions
>> >   could add or remove config options
>>
>> This is why there should be automated tests.
>> There are too few of them.
>
> This is easier said than done.  A program could […]

Yes, it’s easy to say a lot of things.  This is not an argument against
providing tests *where feasible*.

> I would also want to share my experience as a user, that having
> to run guix home reconfigure iteratively is not exactly pleasant
> due to the high delay.

What’s a high delay?  Is a one second reconfiguration too long for what
it does?  I don’t think so.

-- 
Ricardo


  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-26 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-26 13:53 Are declarative app configs worth it? Sergey Trofimov
2023-12-26 14:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-12-26 15:05   ` John Soo
2023-12-26 15:18   ` Nguyễn Gia Phong via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-12-26 16:50     ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2023-12-27  1:34       ` Nguyễn Gia Phong via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-12-26 15:39   ` Attila Lendvai
2023-12-26 16:49     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-12-27  7:38   ` Sergey Trofimov
2023-12-28 14:28     ` Efraim Flashner
2023-12-27  4:15 ` Murad Mamedov

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