Re: User-Friendlyness of Guix and non-scaryness, printing messages

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Sun, 28 May 2017 23:12:44 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> 
>> >> Perhaps for `guix package`, but I disagree for `guix build` and others.
>> >> It prints *only* the new store items on stdout, and this makes it very
>> >> easy to compose Guix commands. We should not break this.  
>> >
>> > I agree. guix build is different.  Its whole point is to do that.
>> >
>> > The scripts I mean are:
>> > - guix package
>> > - guix system  
>> 
>> Agreed for these.
>
> I forgot guix environment.
>
>> I’ve just pushed an old experiment as ‘wip-ui’ to give an idea of what I
>> mean.  If it still works, ‘guix package’ shows N line about the ongoing
>
> I'll check it out...
>
>> progress, where N is the number of parallel jobs (--max-jobs).  It could
>> be as concise as this:
>> <http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html>.
>
> Hmm, is that the correct URL ? :)

It was correct once upon a time.  :-)  Here’s the current one:
<https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/01/08/version-0160-released.html>.

Ludo’.