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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The future of 'guix environment'
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 23:06:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pob8vmhy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lglz2hrn.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:57:00 -0500")

Hi Chris,

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Thompson, David writes:
>
>> Ricardo, you are correct that we would lose the ability to use the
>> guix.scm file for both 'guix environment' and 'guix build'.  In
>> practice I don't actually use my guix.scm file this way, so I think
>> it's worth breaking, but maybe you (or someone else) actually uses
>> this and we should think more about it?
>
> 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!  :-)

I use a feature that maybe no one else uses, which is to have guix.scm
return a gexp.  I found it to be a relatively nice way to do
makefile-like things, like building the web site:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/guix.scm

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-02 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30 13:22 The future of 'guix environment' Thompson, David
2017-08-30 15:11 ` 宋文武
2017-08-30 15:33   ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-30 15:43   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-31 15:00     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:56   ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31  1:28     ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01  3:57       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-09-01 13:15         ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:06         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-09-03  7:15           ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-05 12:42             ` Thompson, David
2017-09-05 14:34               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 15:52 ` Andreas Enge
2017-08-31  7:18 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-08-31 13:28   ` Thompson, David
2017-09-01 11:50     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-01 12:08       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-09-01 12:25         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-01 13:13       ` Thompson, David
2017-08-31 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01  0:29   ` Thompson, David
2017-09-02 21:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-01  3:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber

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