Re: Are declarative app configs worth it?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Nguyễn Gia Phong <cnx@loang.net> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
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> On 2023-12-26 at 15:56+01:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> On 2023-12-26 at 14:53+01:00, Sergey Trofimov wrote:
>> > - adding it to guix increases maintenance burden: new versions
>> >   could add or remove config options
>>
>> This is why there should be automated tests.
>> There are too few of them.
>
> This is easier said than done.  A program could […]

Yes, it’s easy to say a lot of things.  This is not an argument against
providing tests *where feasible*.

> I would also want to share my experience as a user, that having
> to run guix home reconfigure iteratively is not exactly pleasant
> due to the high delay.

What’s a high delay?  Is a one second reconfiguration too long for what
it does?  I don’t think so.

-- 
Ricardo