Hi,
That sounds like it could be a reasonable compromise to me, as long as it's
clearly documented in the Texinfo and help text that it's an alias.
However, it seems to me that it would duplicate the well known features of
any shell (i.e. defining your own aliases or functions to make certain
freq
Hi!
I sympathize with the idea that ‘guix package -i’ and co. can be
cumbersome to type and maybe non-obvious, so I would be happy to add
‘guix install’, ‘guix remove’, and ‘guix search’. I would prefer to
document ‘guix package’ as the canonical interface though, for the
reasons David and Chris
Chris Marusich skribis:
> I think keeping things simple makes a lot of sense, especially since you
> can add your own convenience wrapper easily using shell aliases etc.
One could add a ‘guix-install’ alias, but not a ‘guix install’ alias,
though.
> Thanks for listening to my opinion - Guix is
Hi,
As a new user myself, I think I'd like to add my own opinion.
When the subcommands are explicitly namespaced (as in "guix package -i
foo"), I find it easier to (1) understand and (2) look up usage
information. In my opinion, shoving many disparate actions (and thus,
options) into a single glo
Mathieu Lirzin (2015-08-07 13:08 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:
>>[...]
>>> Attached is a patch to implement "guix install". It just copies over
>>> functionality from guix package. We could refactor more but I would
>>> start with this as it i
Andy Wingo (2015-08-07 11:45 +0300) wrote:
> On Fri 07 Aug 2015 09:47, Alex Kost writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:
>>
>> I don't mind the new commands, but I think this patch is unacceptable
>> because of the huge code duplicating. Sorry if it was sounded rude
>
> Better to
Thanks for the comments. Just a couple points, happy to wait for
Ludovic to get back.
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 14:22, "Thompson, David" writes:
>> In the case of "guix install", yes. However what would you show for
>> "guix install --help"? What would error messages show: "guix package"
>> or "guix
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Fri 07 Aug 2015 10:48, Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
Attached is a patch to implement "guix install". It just copies over
functionality from guix package. We could refactor more but I would
start with this as it is; when things ne
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 10:48, Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>>> Attached is a patch to implement "guix install". It just copies over
>>> functionality from guix package. We could refactor more but I would
>>> start with this as it is; when things need changes is the time to
>>> refactor, at least for me.
Alex Kost writes:
> Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:
>[...]
>> Attached is a patch to implement "guix install". It just copies over
>> functionality from guix package. We could refactor more but I would
>> start with this as it is; when things need changes is the time to
>> refactor,
>> Attached is a patch to implement "guix install". It just copies over
>> functionality from guix package. We could refactor more but I would
>> start with this as it is; when things need changes is the time to
>> refactor, at least for me. What do you think? :)
>
> I don't mind the new command
On Fri 07 Aug 2015 09:47, Alex Kost writes:
> Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:
>
> I don't mind the new commands, but I think this patch is unacceptable
> because of the huge code duplicating. Sorry if it was sounded rude
Better to just not be rude, please. I know "this patch is unac
Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think Guix's tooling is OK but it could be better. As a user -- and
> I'm really trying to be a user and not a developer :-) -- my main
> interactions with a Guix system are installing, searching, and
> upgrading. Sometimes mucking about wit
I really welcome this patch! :)
> From 7f1ac0b748a40b0a093d20c27401f305ce6aec9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andy Wingo
> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:27:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Add guix install command
>
> * guix/scripts/install.scm: New file.
> * doc/guix.texi: Change guix package -i invocations to
he time to
refactor, at least for me. What do you think? :)
Regards,
Andy
>From 7f1ac0b748a40b0a093d20c27401f305ce6aec9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Wingo
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:27:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add guix install command
* guix/scripts/install.scm: New file.
* doc/guix
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