Re: [PATCH] scripts: Add 'environment' command.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

>> I didn’t mention it before but it would be wonderful if you could come
>> up with a little test case.  It’s a bit difficult, esp. since the tests
>> cannot assume that will download & build the world.  So basically the
>> test could do, in a tests/guix-environment.sh script:
>>
>>   guix environment -e '(@@ (gnu packages bootstrap) %bootstrap-guile)' ...
>>
>> and make sure it at least sees ‘guile’ in $PATH.
>>
>> WDYT?  That can come in a later commit if you prefer.
>>
>
> Hmm, it's actually a bit trickier than that because the bootstrap guile
> has no inputs, so the resulting purified environment is completely
> empty.

Ah OK.

> +@table @code
> +@item --expression=@var{expr}
> +@itemx -E @var{expr}
> +Create an environment for the package that @var{expr} evaluates to.

[...]

> +@item --exec=@var{command}
> +@item -e @var{command}
> +Execute @var{command} in the new environment.

Typo: swap -e/-E.

The rest is alright, OK to commit!

Thank you!

Ludo’.