Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Feng Shu <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Currently you have to do:
>>
>>   guix package -i $(guix build emacs --with-source=…/emacs-20151111.tar.gz)
>>
>> Not as convenient as one would like.  I guess we could add --with-source
>> directly in ‘guix package’.
>
> I agree and suggest add a way which can override name and verison, for
> example:
>
>   guix package -i emacs-snapshot --with-source=/path/to/emacs.git 
> --override-name=emacs-snapshot --override-version=20151111

I don’t like to add override-name and override-version flags.  They
don’t seem very useful.  After all, every different build gets its own
directory in the store, so “override-version” seems to be useless.

“override-name” just duplicates the package name, so I fail to see how
it would be an improvement.

I do agree that it would be a little nicer if we could build and install
a package from a directory, rather than just from a tarball.

~~ Ricardo