Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-23 Thread sbaugh
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Done in 645b9df858683dc05ffa04c9eb2fdc45ccef4a65. Feedback welcome! > > Ludo’. Excellent! I will try to use this in the future, and see how well it works for my use case.

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> Again to make this more convenient, I thought we could have a --with-graft option, which would work like --with-input except that it would graft the new Z onto A/B/C

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Again to make this more convenient, I thought we could have a >>> --with-graft option, which would work like --with-input except that it >>> would graft the new Z onto A/B/C instead of rebuilding them. >> >>

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Again to make this more convenient, I thought we could have a >> --with-graft option, which would work like --with-input except that it >> would graft the new Z onto A/B/C instead of rebuilding them. > > This is a good idea! Done in 645b9df

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Again to make this more convenient, I thought we could have a > --with-graft option, which would work like --with-input except that it > would graft the new Z onto A/B/C instead of rebuilding them. This is a good idea! ~~ Ricardo

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-14 Thread sbaugh
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > sba...@catern.com skribis: >> - Currently every dependency is located at a well known globally unique >> and globally meaningful path; add some kind of "variant package" >> construct which specifies a package which is "passed in" to the >> environment

Re: Developing libraries for the GNU system with Guix

2016-10-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! sba...@catern.com skribis: > When I am hacking on some library Z, I continuously want to test the > effects that my changes to Z have on packages A/B/C which depend on > Z. The same applies, in general, when hacking on any package Z which > other packages A/B/C depend on: While developing,