Re: The future of 'guix environment'

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>
>>>> 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!  :-)
>>
>> Me too!  It's great to test if all is fine.  What I'm also using is your
>> git-file? hack
>>
>>     https://git.dthompson.us/guile-sdl2.git/blob/HEAD:/guix.scm
>>
>> does anyone see a nice way to put that function/functionaly in guix?
>
> git-file? was snarfed from some internal Guix code that Ludovic wrote.
> I would also like to see a public API for it.

It’s ‘git-predicate’ in (guix git-download).

Ludo’.