Taylan Kammer writes: > On 10.12.2019 18:16, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello! >> "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: >> >>> I have long thought that --ad-hoc should be implied, as that is the >>> mode I use 99% of the time, but I disagree that --pure should be the >>> default. >> I very much agree with that. I don’t think ‘--pure’ should be the >> default, because there are valid use cases for that. >> As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The >> difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism so >> that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight. >> Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome! >> Thanks, >> Ludo’. >> > > I suppose the straightforward way of doing such a transition would be: > > - In the next release, add --inputs-of and make the use of 'guix > environment' with neither switch emit a warning saying you should > use the new switch to explicitly enable it because the default will > change. > > - Later, change the default behavior and deprecate --ad-hoc as it > becomes a no-op. > > - (Optional) In some future release, remove --ad-hoc. > > > Taylan
That sounds good to me. And could we make "env" a shortcut for "environment" anyway? My fingers are tired. ;)
