On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 18:16 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The > difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism > so > that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight. > > Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome! > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > >
Why not make it fully explicit, without either being the default? It would make script more readable too. Then the deprecation is as easy as printing a warning when the invocation relies on the default. For example `guix environment hello` would become `guix environment -- inputs-of hello`. Not using `--inputs-of` would print something like "warning: implicit --inputs-of is deprecated".
