Re: 'guix environment' as a build tool.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Conversely, useful metadata is missing: for instance, I’d like to add
>> something that would allow me to specify the equivalent of ‘--network
>> --expose=$HOME/.gdbinit’ in development environments I use.
>>
>> Perhaps the solution is to introduce a new way to declare development
>> environments?  It would be similar to ‘package’, but without ‘synopsis’,
>> ‘description’, and a couple other things; it could have additional
>> fields to describe container setups and such likes; it would compile
>> down to a bag, just like packages.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Hmm, that sounds like a good idea.  Maybe I'll try to write a
> prototype sometime.  The downside of this method is that one could no
> longer use the same expression as input to 'guix build -f' or 'guix
> package -f'.

Good point.  That would be a drawback of the approach, but probably we
can support both styles.

Thanks,
Ludo’.