Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> writes: > Hi Simon, > >> Maybe I miss a point. It is not: "watch out, this will do something >> else in the future" but "watch out, this was doing something else in >> the past and the change happened the <date> in <commit>". > > Concrete example: I am writing a tutorial about using Guix for > reproducible research. It shows several uses of "guix environment", some > of them without '–add-hoc' or '–inputs-of'. I know my examples will > cease to work in a few months. What am I supposed to do about this?
This is the point where we need to ask ourselves:
Should Guix be volatile software?
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/
Also: Software developers should avoid traumatic changes
https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/26/Avoid-traumatic-changes.html
Best wishes,
Arne
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