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Re: Named environments
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pinoaffe |
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Re: Named environments |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:48:43 +0200 |
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Hey guix,
to me, this sounds very similar to the features offered by profiles,
which differences do you envision?
blessings,
pinoaffe
Ryan Prior writes:
> Hey Guix.
>
> I've been thinking lately it would be convenient to create certain uniquely
> named execution environments on my machine. For example, I might have one set
> up with dependencies for my Python webapp & environment variables set to
> autoconnect to a Postgres server. I might have another that's got test
> dependencies and is containerized, such that it can only access the network &
> not the rest of my filesystem. Suppose I name these two "webapp" and "test"
> respectively.
>
> I picture running eg `guix env @webapp -- uvicorn main:app` to start my
> server, then `guix env @test -- pytest` to run my tests.
>
> I might write a wrapper in some scripting language that sets up this kind of
> system. Would anybody else be interested in using such a thing? Would it make
> sense to integrate this capability into Guix itself?
>
> Ryan