2018-03-08 21:15 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

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> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
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> > 2018-03-08 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:
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> >> Hi Guix,
> >>
> >> under “guix/scripts” there are a couple of tools that are really useful,
> >> such as “guix challenge”.  While they are great for the command line,
> >> I’d really like to use them from within Guile.
> >>
> >> Using “(guix-challenge)” directly is cumbersome, because I need to
> >> provide an argument list “args”, which is then parsed internally.
> >> Instead, I’d like to be able to say
> >>
> >>    (challenge #:urls (list "a" "b")
> >>               #:packages (list foo bar baz))
> >>
> >> and have it produce some report values.  Then “guix-challenge” could be
> >> implemented in terms of “challenge”.
> >>
> >> The same might be useful for “guix-build” or “guix-environment”.
> >>
> >>
> > I agree. This would also enable more flexible cli possibilities, and
> > would be really useful for scripting. Does this idea fit to the
> > improve command line tools outreachy idea?
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> The outreachy project is about making the *output* of Guix prettier and
> less cluttered, so this would not be part of that project.
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>
I see, then I'm willing to help you out with this, if we decide to
implement it.
I would wait for some more opinions thou.


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