Re: Guix Goals: One Hackable Developer Tool To Rule Them All

[pinoaffe <pinoaffe@airmail.cc>]

indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> writes:

> Sorry if this comes off as facetious (because this is an interesting
> proposal) but hasnt Make cornered a lot of these usecases well enough?

It has covered some of these usecases to a certain degree, but in my
opinion there's a lot of room for improvement.

As an example, setting up make to run a particular command in a
particular environment (e.g., with certain packages available) is (imo)
quite annoying.  It would be possible to shell out to guix from within a
makefile, but at that point, it's (imo) way cleaner if this can be
handled by guix.

Furthermore, doing this ckind of configuration in a makefile means that
the same or very similar make commands would need to be put in many
projects' makefiles, this could be implemented a lot cleaner within guix.