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. :-)
next prev parent 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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