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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What’s the weather like?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:15:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pocqkmbz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=qyS2D3-O70JKiUyd1Gp1rLPLOQBCCF7UfLz7BsKugaQQ@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent Legoll's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:17:06 +0200")

Hi,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> I hope the "weather" naming is only temporary and will migrate
> to a better one (more descriptive) before commit.
>
> Don't get me wrong, it's a cool name, for people that already
> know about the feature. But for guix newcomers, it will be
> confusing, IMHO.

Note that it’s not meant for everyday use either.

> Not knowing what I'm talking about, I'd hazard a guess...
> guix substitute --status
> or something like that...

‘guix substitute’ exists but is an internal command.

‘guix status’ would be too vague.

Naming is hard!

Ludo’, who also has plans for a “guix health” command.  :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-24 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-21 15:13 What’s the weather like? Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-23  7:25 ` Catonano
2017-07-24  9:07   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-24 11:17     ` Vincent Legoll
2017-07-24 13:15       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-07-24 14:48         ` Vincent Legoll
2017-07-23  7:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-23 10:26   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-23 11:02     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-25 10:26       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-26 20:22         ` Alex Kost
2017-07-27  9:06           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-27 11:39           ` Ricardo Wurmus

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