Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?

2019-12-20 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad, On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 12:18, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > My point of view (long form: > https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02117588) > is that software projects should adopt a backwards compatibility policy > early on, state it clearly in their documentation, and stick to it. That >

Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?

2019-12-20 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Clearly there’s a tension between that and keeping Guix open to changes. That's indeed the main problem and here as elsewhere, it is often a topic of heated arguments. My point of view (long form: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02117588) is that software projects should adopt a

Re: Deprecating ‘guix environment’?

2019-12-19 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 17:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The hard question then becomes: what do we call it? I vote against > abbreviations. :-) "guix shell"? Cheers, simon