Re: Making local development easy

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> writes:

> The second issue was getting the data to the store, as first I tried a
> relative path, but that did not work, and ended up having to expose the
> repository using a HTTP server, and access it over the loopback
> interface. This again is rather prohibitive to local development. To
> improve on this, could guix build do the insertion in to the store, such
> that relative paths would work? This would allow just writing a
> "guix.scm" file, which just uses (git-reference (url "./") (commit "HEAD")).

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the problem, but do you know that you can use
“file://” URIs?  I’m doing this for local copies of tarballs that I
don’t plan to distribute.

~~ Ricardo