Hi Chris, Christopher Allan Webber <[email protected]> skribis:
> Thompson, David writes: > >> Ricardo, you are correct that we would lose the ability to use the >> guix.scm file for both 'guix environment' and 'guix build'. In >> practice I don't actually use my guix.scm file this way, so I think >> it's worth breaking, but maybe you (or someone else) actually uses >> this and we should think more about it? > > 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! :-) I use a feature that maybe no one else uses, which is to have guix.scm return a gexp. I found it to be a relatively nice way to do makefile-like things, like building the web site: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/guix.scm Ludo’.
