From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Tomáš Čech" <tcech@suse.cz>
Cc: 20137@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:13:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhiom5zq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150322234051.GE3826@venom> ("Tomáš Čech"'s message of "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:40:51 +0100")
Tomáš Čech <tcech@suse.cz> skribis:
>>Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the
>>nodes can be named whatever. Until now I thought that's how generations
>>work, and are just named after integers for identification purposes.
[...]
>>I’m concerned that this would add both code and user interface
>>complexity for mostly hypothetical use cases. WDYT?
>
> Yes, it would surely add some more code and would be demanding for
> creating good visual represantation for users, but it could also be
> much closer to behavior user would expect. And that is something which
> makes tools to be natural to use.
I’m not sure. My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out to be
less obvious or more difficult to use.
Currently, understanding what’s going on with M-x guix-generations or
--list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-23 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-18 17:35 bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically Tomáš Čech
2015-03-18 20:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-18 20:47 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-03-18 20:52 ` Thompson, David
2015-03-19 8:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-22 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-22 23:40 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-03-23 9:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-03-23 9:50 ` Tomáš Čech
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