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Subject: Re: The future of 'guix environment'
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:34:42 +0200
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"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:
>>
>>>> I do use guix.scm for testing `guix build'.  Maybe I ma the only one
>>>> though.  It turns out to be very useful to find out whether or not I've
>>>> done something that borked my package that's not obvious because I have
>>>> some compiled .go file around in working directory or something.
>>>
>>> I use it too, occasionally!  :-)
>>
>> Me too!  It's great to test if all is fine.  What I'm also using is your
>> git-file? hack
>>
>>     https://git.dthompson.us/guile-sdl2.git/blob/HEAD:/guix.scm
>>
>> does anyone see a nice way to put that function/functionaly in guix?
>
> git-file? was snarfed from some internal Guix code that Ludovic wrote.
> I would also like to see a public API for it.

It=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98git-predicate=E2=80=99 in (guix git-download).

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