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

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

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)

-- 
Alex