Re: “Guix Profiles in Practice”

[Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>]

Am 27.10.19 um 20:06 schrieb Pierre Neidhardt:
> I think it's useful to support multiple directories since it's likely
> that users will work on multiple projects.
>
> See what I've done for Emacs-Guix.  The (configurable) file structure
> looks like this:
>
> - ~/.guix-extra-profiles/my-project
> - ~/.guix-extra-manifests/my-project
> - ~/.guix-extra-channels/my-project

AFAIU David (and this is what I meant, too), is to have the
"develop.scm" (or ".guix-develop-profile.scm") in the project working
tree. This would allow to easily maintain the profile together with the
source and a simple workflow like

cd /path/to/my-project
guix develop

or

guix develop /path/to/my-project

> Then I can do "guix-install-manifest", Emacs prompts me for a manifest
> name in ~/.guix-extra-manifests (with completion), and does all the
> necessary to install it in ~/.guix-extra-profiles.  It dumps the channel
> specification in ~/.guix-extra-channels/my-project.
IMHO this is a too emacs-centric approach. We should also have in mind
those not using guix-mode and not even using emacs.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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