From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment'
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:12:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZRj+1kG1VDUtyYLV3+JTf3xie1TPpq4-0iUePC1Rg4Nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io6hpaie.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess we must still support -E for compatibility. Probably it should
>>> do an implicit ‘sh -c’?
>>
>> This introduces implementation issues. What if a user provides both a
>> -E command *and* a command after '--'? What's the sane thing to do?
>
> I’d consider this a bug in the user’s mind ;-) and would do whatever is
> easiest.
Okay. Will do.
>> I also don't feel strongly that we need to keep flags around for
>> compatibility this early in the game, given that we are alpha software
>> and such.
>
> I think it’s neither black nor white.
>
> For instance, I use it at work for continuous integration. I can
> definitely migrate the scripts to the new syntax, but it’s best if it
> doesn’t break overnight.
I didn't know that you were one the users in question. ;)
> So we could remove -E from ‘--help’ and from the manual, but still keep
> it around for a while.
That sounds good.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-08 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-08 1:28 Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment' David Thompson
2015-10-08 7:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-08 12:41 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-08 14:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-08 15:42 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-08 16:05 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-10-08 16:32 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-08 17:10 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-10-08 16:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-08 17:12 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2015-10-09 1:29 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-09 12:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-09 16:21 ` Thompson, David
2015-10-08 15:09 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
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