Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add "guix-devel-…" commands.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-08-18 16:50 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> And finally, I'm afraid building guix package in a Geiser REPL may not
>>> be very useful because of <https://github.com/jaor/geiser/issues/28>
>>> (you have wait for the REPL command to be finished before continuing to
>>> edit .scm-file).
>>
>> Bummer, indeed.  I wonder if that could be worked around by spawning a
>> new Guile server thread that would be used to build the package, and
>> opening a new Geiser REPL connected to that thread?  Maybe too complex,
>> though.
>
> That's what I did for *Guix REPL*: it is a server by default, and there
> is *Guix Internal REPL* which connects to it (there is a commentary
> about it in "emacs/guix-backend.el").
>
> But I don't think it should be done here: as a user I expect that the
> building will be performed in the current Geiser REPL, so it's up to me
> (as a user) to decide what repl it is.
>
> Also to avoid that limitation, a user can just run another Geiser REPL
> after the building begins, and can continue to edit a scheme file with
> the help of the current REPL, while the building will continue in the
> previous one.  (I will mention this in the manual)

OK, sounds good!

Ludo’.