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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: extract tools from guix scripts
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:15:39 +0100
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G=C3=A1bor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:

> 2018-03-08 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> under =E2=80=9Cguix/scripts=E2=80=9D there are a couple of tools that ar=
e really useful,
>> such as =E2=80=9Cguix challenge=E2=80=9D.  While they are great for the =
command line,
>> I=E2=80=99d really like to use them from within Guile.
>>
>> Using =E2=80=9C(guix-challenge)=E2=80=9D directly is cumbersome, because=
 I need to
>> provide an argument list =E2=80=9Cargs=E2=80=9D, which is then parsed in=
ternally.
>> Instead, I=E2=80=99d like to be able to say
>>
>>    (challenge #:urls (list "a" "b")
>>               #:packages (list foo bar baz))
>>
>> and have it produce some report values.  Then =E2=80=9Cguix-challenge=E2=
=80=9D could be
>> implemented in terms of =E2=80=9Cchallenge=E2=80=9D.
>>
>> The same might be useful for =E2=80=9Cguix-build=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cgu=
ix-environment=E2=80=9D.
>>
>>
> I agree. This would also enable more flexible cli possibilities, and
> would be really useful for scripting. Does this idea fit to the
> improve command line tools outreachy idea?

The outreachy project is about making the *output* of Guix prettier and
less cluttered, so this would not be part of that project.

--=20
Ricardo

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