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bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:27:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Regarding the aesthetics, I’d be in favor of using @ for the version:
>
> You mean like npm...  :)

Possibly, but I’m not that proficient at npm.  ;-)  I think I’ve seen
another tool use that convention, though I don’t remember which one
(maybe Spack?).

It’s more that address@hidden reads like “Guile at [version] 1.8.”

>>   address@hidden
>>   address@hidden:doc
>>
>> I’m not sure if we should also allow:
>>
>>   guile:address@hidden
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'm OK with that.  Since choosing the reserved characters is not a
> technical decision, maybe we could poll users?

Yes, why not (bikeshedding ahead! :-)).  Would you like to email
guix-devel about it?

Note that it only affects the CLI.  The Emacs and Web UIs won’t see any
difference.

Ludo’.





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