Re: The future of 'guix environment'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Chris,

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> Thompson, David writes:
>
>> Ricardo, you are correct that we would lose the ability to use the
>> guix.scm file for both 'guix environment' and 'guix build'.  In
>> practice I don't actually use my guix.scm file this way, so I think
>> it's worth breaking, but maybe you (or someone else) actually uses
>> this and we should think more about it?
>
> I do use guix.scm for testing `guix build'.  Maybe I ma the only one
> though.  It turns out to be very useful to find out whether or not I've
> done something that borked my package that's not obvious because I have
> some compiled .go file around in working directory or something.

I use it too, occasionally!  :-)

I use a feature that maybe no one else uses, which is to have guix.scm
return a gexp.  I found it to be a relatively nice way to do
makefile-like things, like building the web site:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/guix.scm

Ludo’.