Hello, On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 09:54 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> HI, > > John Kehayias <john.kehay...@protonmail.com> skribis: > >> As one who also would like a shorter syntax option, here's a quick >> thought: what about a short version of what we have for when there >> is only one package given or it can be applied to all packages/be a >> positional argument? An example is perhaps best, so what if we could >> write: >> >> guix shell <package> --with-latest >> >> or guix shell <package> -<a letter which is available> >> >> which is short for >> >> guix shell <package> --with-latest=<package> >> >> or even >> >> guix shell <package1> <package2> <package3> --with-latest >> >> to apply to all packages. > > This should be possible. We should check the option parsers and > transformation procedures in (guix transformations). > Sounds good, seems like a nice little project for someone. I'll pass for the time being as I catch up on my patches and trying to review more. (And I want to add some basic multi-arch support to the FHS container, too.) >> Or something like >> >> guix shell <package1> <package2> --with-git-url=<a git url for package3> >> <package3> >> >> and so on. > > This I’m unsure; one might argue that it’s also ambiguous, I’d always > wonder what ‘--with-git-url’ applies to. > I generally agree; I'm not a fan of too much positional-ness in arguments as it can get confusing. Though we do have --development for guix shell already, of course.
