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Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed d
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism |
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Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:12:17 +0100 |
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Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> Maybe I miss a point. It is not: "watch out, this will do something
>> else in the future" but "watch out, this was doing something else in
>> the past and the change happened the <date> in <commit>".
>
> Concrete example: I am writing a tutorial about using Guix for
> reproducible research. It shows several uses of "guix environment", some
> of them without '–add-hoc' or '–inputs-of'. I know my examples will
> cease to work in a few months. What am I supposed to do about this?
I wonder if we should simply bump the version number to indicate that
this is a breaking change?
Another more difficult option would be to do what responsible API
developers on the web do: to version their API and to make the API
version selectable. I don’t know *how* to do this elegantly, and
there’s a real maintenance cost (it seems small in this case), but
configuration files can be used for changing new defaults.
--
Ricardo
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, (continued)
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2019/12/18
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/19
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2019/12/19
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/19
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2019/12/19
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/20
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2019/12/20
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, zimoun, 2019/12/20
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism, Konrad Hinsen, 2019/12/21
- Deprecating ‘guix environment’?, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/12/19
- Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?, zimoun, 2019/12/19
- Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?, Konrad Hinsen, 2019/12/20
- Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?, zimoun, 2019/12/20