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Subject: bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:27:54 +0100
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Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>> Regarding the aesthetics, I=E2=80=99d be in favor of using @ for the ver=
sion:
>
> You mean like npm...  :)

Possibly, but I=E2=80=99m not that proficient at npm.  ;-)  I think I=E2=80=
=99ve seen
another tool use that convention, though I don=E2=80=99t remember which one
(maybe Spack?).

It=E2=80=99s more that =E2=80=9Cguile@1.8=E2=80=9D reads like =E2=80=9CGuil=
e at [version] 1.8.=E2=80=9D

>>   guile@1.8
>>   guile@1.8:doc
>>
>> I=E2=80=99m not sure if we should also allow:
>>
>>   guile:doc@1.8
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'm OK with that.  Since choosing the reserved characters is not a
> technical decision, maybe we could poll users?

Yes, why not (bikeshedding ahead! :-)).  Would you like to email
guix-devel about it?

Note that it only affects the CLI.  The Emacs and Web UIs won=E2=80=99t see=
 any
difference.

Ludo=E2=80=99.