Hi
On 2018-11-05 20:46, Leo Famulari wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:
I would not consider this a bug: It clearly says that it is not a
proper URI. Also in the documentation all URLs/URIs are written in the
form of
PROTOCOL://SERVER/PATH.
I agree that it's not a bug, but perhaps it's more like a wishlist item.
Ideally, users would not need to concern themselves with implementation
details like protocol selection.
Guix could offer a more unified or simpler interface for authorizing and
selecting substitute servers, and it would handle server addresses,
communication protocols, and key authorization. Currently it's very
ad-hoc.
+1
It is error prone and hard to understand for newcomers what is going on
behind the scenes.
I wrote this report from the perspective of a newcomer - ideally they
should not receive any errors at all if you ask me.
Do you have any ideas how to implement anything better?
A newt-ncurses interface maybe?
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Cheers
Swedebugia
