Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-02-04 Thread Rostislav Svoboda
This is something we're capable of too, right? https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/libcurl Bost Le lun. 22 janv. 2024 à 01:22, Carlo Zancanaro a écrit : > > Hi Ian, > > On Sat, Jan 20 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > > I agree that this would make sense, but my understanding is that `guix > > package' do

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-21 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hi Ian, On Sat, Jan 20 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > I agree that this would make sense, but my understanding is that `guix > package' doesn’t work like that -- it only performs the final > operation in the list. IMO, it should either do *everything* the > commands specify, or print an error and take n

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-20 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Carlo, Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Carlo Zancanaro writes: Hi Ian, Much of what you've written is fair, and I'm sure that Guix's commands could be better organised. I'm not really involved in Guix development, but I think there are two "inconsistencies" that you've mentioned wh

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-18 Thread Rostislav Svoboda
I find the discrepancy regarding two dashes '--' is annoying: $ guix package --list-generations=1d ... $ guix describe --list-generations=1d guix system: error: list-generations=1d: unrecognized option $ guix describe list-generations=1d ... And more importantly, I'd be happy if the CLI and REPL

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-16 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:24:29AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > Greetings, > > As I’ve been learning Guix, one of the things I’ve found somewhat unpleasant > is the lack of consistency within the guix CLI tool. It feels a bit > Git-like, with not much consistency, commands that non-obvioulsy perform >

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-15 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hi Ian, Much of what you've written is fair, and I'm sure that Guix's commands could be better organised. I'm not really involved in Guix development, but I think there are two "inconsistencies" that you've mentioned which can be explained. On Mon, Jan 15 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > Some examples of

Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-15 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ian, On Mon, Jan 15 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > What do you all think? The pain is not yet great enough to make changes. Also, the interface may have more basic issues. [1] Kind regards Felix [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58908

Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

2024-01-15 Thread Ian Eure
Greetings, As I’ve been learning Guix, one of the things I’ve found somewhat unpleasant is the lack of consistency within the guix CLI tool. It feels a bit Git-like, with not much consistency, commands that non-obvioulsy perform more than operation, related commands in different places in the