From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: Making local development easy Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:36:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1oaeayl.fsf@igalia.com> References: <57449CA9.3040502@cbaines.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5VF9-0003yp-Jw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 05:36:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5VF5-00061a-LO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 05:36:47 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.67]:54850 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5VF5-0005xk-F5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 05:36:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <57449CA9.3040502@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Tue, 24 May 2016 20:25:45 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Baines Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue 24 May 2016 20:25, Christopher Baines writes: > The first, is that the hash is required, which I only had to compute > once, but if I wanted to change the package, I would have to update > this, which is prohibitive to local development. As an improvement to > this, could the hash be optional, and if it does not exist, be > calculated when the build is performed? Yes I hate this!!!! I don't know what the right solution is, but for local development somethign is needed :) I have nothing constructive to add but these things you mention are very good points. Andy