David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > I'm looking for thoughts about what the CLI should look like for an > improved 'guix download' that is capable of downloading git repos, svn > repos, etc. in addition to files over HTTP.
(It handles any scheme supported by ‘url-fetch’, which includes mirror:// etc.) > There could be to be additional context-sensitive switches to specify > details beyond a URL. For example, git repos need a commit SHA. > > guix download --method=git --commit=74217b9 g...@gitorious.org/foo/foo.git > > Or perhaps more flags aren't needed and we can use a specific order of > arguments: > > guix download --method=git g...@gitorious.org/foo/foo.git 74217b9 > > Or we could create subcommands for each download method: > > guix download git g...@gitorious.org/foo/foo.git 74217b9 That would be useful. Option #3 is too verbose IMO. I have a slight preference for #2. The question is more whether the implementation could automatically map command-line arguments to objects (‘git-reference’, ‘svn-reference’, etc.), or if we’d rather go for something custom. The former might be nice but might result in a clumsy CLI; the latter is less elegant but might allow for a nicer CLI. WDYT? Ludo’.
