From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mekeor Melire <mekeor.melire@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git-style aliases in Guix?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:53:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9xad8ma.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw73dt8g.fsf@gmail.com> (Mekeor Melire's message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2017 04:27:59 +0100")
Mekeor Melire <mekeor.melire@gmail.com> skribis:
> What I really mean to say is, that it'd be a shame, if Guix had a
> configuration file like Git which uses this syntax:
>
> [user]
> name = example
> email = example@example.example
> [alias]
> i = init
> z = stash
> s = status
>
> I mean, all the files Guix reads are written in Scheme (config.scm,
> manifest.scm, any package.scm). So, how could it work that Guix was
> configured in Scheme?
>
> Is there any way we could make config.scm include a similar data-type as
> `operating-system`, maybe called `guix-configuration` or whatever, which
> has a field called `aliases`?
>
> I mean, implementing aliases isn't per-se difficult. But I'd love to
> have a much broader approach to configure Guix (and Guix' CLI).
Sure, that’d be a Schemey config file and not a Git-style config file,
no argument here. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-25 20:59 Git-style aliases in Guix? Alex Griffin
2017-02-26 21:15 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-02-27 5:54 ` John Darrington
2017-02-27 8:30 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-02-27 15:15 ` John Darrington
2017-02-27 19:01 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-03-08 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-09 3:27 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-03-09 10:53 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2017-02-25 20:58 Alex Griffin
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