I don't like the unpredictability of jgart's original proposal, but maybe something explicit could still look similar.
Suppose you could build emacs-ement these three ways: # no transform- this is a version packaged in Guix guix build emacs-ement@0.5.2 # transform using `with-git-commit` guix build emacs-ement@git-commit:8b56efa9387262514daf63151d41c9e111e79567 # transform using `with-latest` guix build emacs-ement@latest # transform using `with-version` guix build emacs-ement@version:0.8.2 A short syntax for transforms would contribute to readability and ergonomic ease. Worth looking into. Ryan ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 5:20 PM, jgart <jg...@dismail.de> wrote: > > > > What disturbs me with your suggestion is that it reuses the same syntax > > > that is already used for a different purpose. So in a sense you do > > "operator overloading", and the same command line then means different > > things depending on whether the package version is already provided by > > Guix or not. > > > Yes, I see how that can be an CLI smell and "not Guixonic". > > Would be sweet to have something like it but I realize the negative of > dirtying the current API's explicitness to get lower verbosity invocations at > the shell prompt.
