Re: Building from a local source code checkout

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I agree the matching-name constraint can be annoying.  The alternative
> would be allow the user to (optionally?) specify the name of the package
> whose source is being changed, as in:
>
>   guix build python-activepapers \
>     --with-source=python-activepapers=$HOME/Dev/AP
>
> WDYT?

Looks much clearer to me. But, as you say, this could well be optional
if we can live with an ambiguity in the rare case of filenames containg
an equal sign.

Konrad.