Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi! > > Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: > >> (1) Install the guix system >> (2) Log in as regular user >> (3) guix edit nano >> (4) It opens a file from /gnu/store that you cannot edit. > > At one point, I thought we could have, say: > > guix edit --clone PKG > > It would close the channel containing PKG, open the file that defines > it, and then tell you to run “guix build -L … PKG” to test your changes. > > All this would be relatively easy to implement, but it has one downside: > it doesn’t work for the ‘guix’ channel. > > Perhaps we could make it work for the ‘guix’ channel if we arrange so > that “guix build -L … PKG” doesn’t end up loading all the local > uncompiled guix/*.scm modules. > > Thoughts? Interesting ideas. If we decide to implement this, it should work from day one with the Guix channel, as that's the main use case I believe. -- Thanks, Maxim
