Re: Packaging packages with GPG signed source archives

2016-08-31 Thread Troy Sankey
Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-08-31 16:21:49) > (That said, more and more software is distributed via Git rather than as > tarballs, and most repos are unsigned; even if they were, there are > basically no tools to meaningfully authenticate a Git checkout…) In that case, not all hope is lost---I'v

[UX] real names exposed

2016-08-31 Thread Troy Sankey
I understand why this happens: % khal --help Usage: .khal-real [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... [...] but I think it sorta sucks for user experience. Just thought I'd point this out, and I was wondering if there were any ideas to address this. Specifically, argv[0] references the name of the "

Re: [UX] real names exposed

2016-09-03 Thread Troy Sankey
Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-09-01 04:59:02) > ‘exec -a’ works as advertised: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ sh -c 'exec -a FOO guile -c "(pk (command-line))"' > > ;;; (("FOO")) > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- So, he

Re: [UX] real names exposed

2016-09-03 Thread Troy Sankey
I suspect the scope of this UX "bug" is larger than python. I think this probably affects every executable written in an interpreted language and using a shebang. Here's another example with a bash script: $ cat > t.sh #!/bin/bash sed 's/\x0/\\0/g' # replaces null bytes with a visible '\

hydra queue length

2017-08-31 Thread Troy Sankey
I use Guix on an old thinkpad, and I've noticed that every time I run `guix pull` followed by `guix package -u`, I need to compile many of the packages. That whole process could take about an hour on my laptop (compiling the package definitions, and many of the package upgrades in my profile). I