Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-13 Thread David Thompson
Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes: David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes: I'm a bit confused about that. Are you suggesting we merge 'guix environment' into 'guix package'? A possibility might be to: • keep ‘guix environment’ as is;

Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread David Thompson
As I use 'guix environment', I realize that I often do not want to create an environment from the inputs of a package, but rather that I want to create an environment from the package itself. I didn't think it was an issue when I did the initial development, but in practice it has proven to be

Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: But all of that boilerplate is unnecessary since it's not possible to actually build the package successfully without a proper hash of the source AFAICT. Really, I would rather just use a simple list of packages: (list autoconf automake

Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread David Thompson
Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes: David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: But all of that boilerplate is unnecessary since it's not possible to actually build the package successfully without a proper hash of the source AFAICT. Really, I would rather just use a simple list of

Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread David Thompson
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:45:02AM -0500, David Thompson wrote: guix environment guile guile-sdl # let's tinker with SDL in Guile Is this not already covered by doing a guix package -i ..., tinkering, and a roll-back? There is one more line to type

Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:45:02AM -0500, David Thompson wrote: guix environment guile guile-sdl # let's tinker with SDL in Guile Is this not already covered by doing a guix package -i ..., tinkering, and a roll-back? There is one more line to type for the roll-back. The functionality with

Re: Improving the usability of 'guix environment'

2015-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes: David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: But all of that boilerplate is unnecessary since it's not possible to actually build the package successfully without a proper hash of the source AFAICT.