From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transformations Shell Syntax
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 16:28:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZGzNovpChBRb1jTn@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412fbcf010594abbac4c653536022455@dismail.de>
Am Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:12:02PM +0000 schrieb jgart:
> > I think your semantics ends up meaning "try to make sense of the version
> > field, and give me the package at this version".
> Aren't these the current semantics of guix package transformations though? I'm just proposing shell syntax for them.
Yes, indeed. So there already is shell syntax, it is just a bit unweildy
and verbose.
What disturbs me with your suggestion is that it reuses the same syntax
that is already used for a different purpose. So in a sense you do
"operator overloading", and the same command line then means different
things depending on whether the package version is already provided by
Guix or not.
Like Simon writes, let us be explicit.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-23 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 6:43 Transformations Shell Syntax jgart
2023-05-23 8:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-05-23 9:39 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-23 13:24 ` jgart
2023-05-23 13:55 ` Andreas Enge
2023-05-23 14:12 ` jgart
2023-05-23 14:22 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-23 14:28 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2023-05-23 17:20 ` jgart
2023-05-24 3:06 ` Ryan Prior
2023-05-26 15:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-27 17:07 ` John Kehayias
2023-07-02 19:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-05 20:23 ` John Kehayias
2023-07-03 0:01 ` jgart
2023-07-16 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-23 13:00 ` Hartmut Goebel
2023-08-16 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
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