On 11/07/2017 at 23:47 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > You’re too fast! :-) > > julien lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> skribis: > [...] > > I’d propose a variant of it, see below. With this, one gets a message > like: > > /tmp/config.scm:6:0: module (gnu packages foobar) could not be found > > where line 6 is: > > (use-package-modules foobar) > > How does that sound? > > It lacks the hints that you were proposing, which isn’t great, but I > think we’d need to provide a homogeneous and internationalized API in > (guix ui) if we are to display hints. But overall I like the idea of > providing hints somehow. > > Perhaps we could simply introduce another condition type for hints as a > first step, similar to ‘&message’? > > Speaking of hints, we should have something that suggests a module name > based on the Levenshtein distance with available modules. :-) > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
FWIW, if you give me the choice between no hints and the hints produced by julien's patch translated into a random foreign (to me) language, I strongly prefer the hints. Why? Because I am will benefit from the embedded data/examples (e.g., `guix package --show=foo | grep location`, which, by the way, will never be translated) even when I do not understand the surrounding words. Wouldn't speakers of any language feel this way about these specific hints? WDYT? - George
