Hi, On Sun, 03 Jul 2022 at 13:11, jgart <jg...@dismail.de> wrote: > What do guixers think of having a repl macro that allows > you to run commands like if you were using the CLI?
I am not sure to understand the question. Well, it is already possible, no? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix repl GNU Guile 3.0.8 Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(guix scripts show) scheme@(guix-user)> (guix-show "hello") name: hello version: 2.12.1 outputs: out systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux dependencies: location: gnu/packages/base.scm:86:2 homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ license: GPL 3+ synopsis: Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package description: GNU Hello prints the message "Hello, world!" and then exits. It serves as an example of standard GNU + coding practices. As such, it supports command-line arguments, multiple languages, and so on. $1 = #t scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(guix scripts package) scheme@(guix-user)> (guix-package "-s" "hello") [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Obviously, using CLI at the REPL is always not handy, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- scheme@(guix-user)> (guix-show "helloo") guix repl: error: helloo: package not found $ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Cheers, simon
