From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Medium-term road map Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87mu6zd6tz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSjnY-00020Z-O4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:06:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSjnY-0002SI-BX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:06:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mu6zd6tz.fsf@gnu.org> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Hi Ludo, On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 15:38, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > 4. User interface. Let=E2=80=99s get our act together with =E2=80=98gu= ix shell=E2=80=99 and > =E2=80=98guix run-script=E2=80=99, and let=E2=80=99s address other a= nnoyances that > newcomers keep stumbling upon! Adding some items to the whishlist. :-) 1. Access to the internal checkout without knowing the very internals. When using "guix time-machine", I am regularly navigating in the Git history. Therefore, I have to clone , going from the to , run Git commands, going back, etc. Well, it is not handy since the checkout already exists (in '~/.cache/guix//'). Something like "guix git " should be useful. Even if I am not clear on how to do with several channels. Maybe: guix git -- guix git -C chan.scm -- --no-pager log --oneline Considering this new subcommand, it should become easy to add Git tags and so ease the navigation (for reference [1]). [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-11/msg00513.html 2. Search on all the packages included in Guix since the Big Bang. It is difficult to find the Guix commit where one package goes in and the commit where it goes out. The Guix Data Service (GDS) helps a lot for that! But AFAIK, it is not possible from the CLI and I do not find it handy when I need it (just because I need to open a webbrowser, etc.). IMHO, there is 3 questions: - how to build such full historical index locally? Even if it is expensive - how to fetch it from GDS? Or any other substitue? - how to append new packages locally? For example with packages from chann= els. The bonus question is feeding SWH to be "guix time-machine" bullet-proof. := -) Cheers, simon