Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

[ng0]

Would you be open for a patch which adds BSD familiar -v behavior?
In other words, multiple v increase the verbosity level, like -vv is more
verbose than -v. I'll have to check the actual changes first, haven't had
access to something which runs plain Guix in a while.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:41 +0100, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 14:31:45 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> These patches re-purposes ‘--verbosity’ so that it better matches
> >> user expectations.  The previous ‘--verbosity’ option, which is
> >> about the daemon’s debugging output, is renamed to ‘--debug’.
> >> In addition, ‘--verbosity’ now has a shorthand ‘-v’.
> >>
> >> Most commands that build stuff support -v/--verbosity so users can
> >> easily override the default verbosity level.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > (Just having looked at the patches, without actually trying it out.)
> >
> > This is much better, thank you!  I was confused by the previous behavior.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback, pushed now!
> 
> I’ve also adjust ‘guix archive’, which I had forgotten in the patch I
> sent.
> 
> Ludo’.

Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi ng0,

<ng0@n0.is> skribis:

> Would you be open for a patch which adds BSD familiar -v behavior?
> In other words, multiple v increase the verbosity level, like -vv is more
> verbose than -v. I'll have to check the actual changes first, haven't had
> access to something which runs plain Guix in a while.

I don’t think (srfi srfi-37) would be able to parse it correctly, and
I’d also prefer to keep a single way to do that.

I like that ‘-vN’ is unambiguous: if you type ‘-v2’, you know you’ll get
exactly level 2 regardless of what options came before (and might come
from $GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS, etc.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

[ng0]

Okay, seems reasonable as well.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:55:55 +0100, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi ng0,
> 
> <ng0@n0.is> skribis:
> 
> > Would you be open for a patch which adds BSD familiar -v behavior?
> > In other words, multiple v increase the verbosity level, like -vv is more
> > verbose than -v. I'll have to check the actual changes first, haven't had
> > access to something which runs plain Guix in a while.
> 
> I don’t think (srfi srfi-37) would be able to parse it correctly, and
> I’d also prefer to keep a single way to do that.
> 
> I like that ‘-vN’ is unambiguous: if you type ‘-v2’, you know you’ll get
> exactly level 2 regardless of what options came before (and might come
> from $GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS, etc.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.