bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string.

[Maxime Devos]

Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 15-07-2022 om 17:41 [+0200]:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks all for your support.  :-)
> 
> I’ve pushed these new REPL commands as
> 4ce7f1fb24a111f3e92d5b889d1271bebf109d09, including a new “Using Guix
> Interactively” section in the manual to document it.  Feedback welcome!
> 
> I’m sure we can add more REPL commands as we better see what useful
> shorthands would be welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ludo’.

Works nicely:

scheme@(guix-user)> ,build (@ (gnu packages base) hello)
[...]
$1 = "/gnu/store/s5pd3rnzymliafb4la5sca63j86xs0y0-hello-2.12.1"

though an actual documented _procedure_ (not command) seems to be
missing, so maybe the issue needs to be reopened later, don't know yet
...

Greetings,
Maxime.