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Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment'
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Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer |
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Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment' |
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Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:10:19 +0200 |
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"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I guess we must still support -E for compatibility. Probably it should
>>>> do an implicit ‘sh -c’?
>>>
>>> This introduces implementation issues. What if a user provides both a
>>> -E command *and* a command after '--'? What's the sane thing to do?
>>>
>>> I also don't feel strongly that we need to keep flags around for
>>> compatibility this early in the game, given that we are alpha software
>>> and such.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> I thought it would be nice to keep also for convenience...
>>
>> -E 'foo' is somewhat nicer than -- sh -c 'foo'.
>
> But this is not a very common case (citing my own personal experience
> and sudo, ssh, and other programs that use this pattern), and now we
> have to deal with precedence rules in the argument parser. If we have
> to keep -E, then I would rather not implement the '--' stuff.
Well never mind then, I don't have a strong opinion.
I used -E 'make && make check' frequently in the recent past but meh,
I'll set up some aliases in worst case, or finally integrate M-x compile
with a dir-local compile-command into my workflow.
Taylan
- Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', David Thompson, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment',
Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer <=
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/10
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/09