Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> I agree the matching-name constraint can be annoying. The alternative >> would be allow the user to (optionally?) specify the name of the package >> whose source is being changed, as in: >> >> guix build python-activepapers \ >> --with-source=python-activepapers=$HOME/Dev/AP >> >> WDYT? > > Looks much clearer to me. But, as you say, this could well be optional > if we can live with an ambiguity in the rare case of filenames containg > an equal sign.
I’ve implemented it here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3e30cdf1c35ebeb52630ec19b3b43b9e6d5ffb81 You no longer need to rename your source directory. :-) Ludo’.
