Comments on European Lisp Symposium paper

Comments on European Lisp Symposium paper

[alirioeyng]

seems a typo

2305c2305
< directly usable by packagers will little or no experience with Scheme. %
---
> directly usable by packagers with little or no experience with Scheme. %

I think '#!/usr/bin/env sh' would work with 'our unusual file system layout'

2530c2530
< required to allow scripts to work with our unusual file system layout;
---
> required to allow scripts to work without that impurity;

why /nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.2 instead of /nix/store/emacs-24.2-v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs?
you hate tab-completion?

Re: Comments on European Lisp Symposium paper

[Ludovic Courtès]

alirioeyng@gmail.com skribis:

> seems a typo
>
> 2305c2305
> < directly usable by packagers will little or no experience with Scheme. %
> ---
>> directly usable by packagers with little or no experience with Scheme. %

Indeed.

> I think '#!/usr/bin/env sh' would work with 'our unusual file system layout'

In the user environment yes, but not necessarily in the build
environment.

What NixOS does is that the system has /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh, but the
build environment only has /bin/sh.

> 2530c2530
> < required to allow scripts to work with our unusual file system layout;
> ---
>> required to allow scripts to work without that impurity;

Good idea.

I’ll commit these changes.

> why /nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.2 instead of /nix/store/emacs-24.2-v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs?
> you hate tab-completion?

That’s inherited from Nix.  My first reaction at the time was the same
as yours, but in practice, I found it convenient that only 3 or 4
characters are needed to disambiguate.

More importantly, I rarely type in /nix/store file names, let alone use
tab completion in there (it’s crowded!).

Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.

Re: Comments on European Lisp Symposium paper

[Andreas Enge]

Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> More importantly, I rarely type in /nix/store file names, let alone use
> tab completion in there (it’s crowded!).

Actually, I do it quite a lot, when I am using the tarballs to check manual 
compilation of a new package that poses problems.

Andreas

Re: Comments on European Lisp Symposium paper

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> More importantly, I rarely type in /nix/store file names, let alone use
>> tab completion in there (it’s crowded!).
>
> Actually, I do it quite a lot, when I am using the tarballs to check manual 
> compilation of a new package that poses problems.

In similar situations I often do things like:

  tar xf $(guix build -S foo)

Ludo’.