Re: The future of 'guix environment'

[Thompson, David]

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>>> I do use guix.scm for testing `guix build'.  Maybe I ma the only one
>>> though.  It turns out to be very useful to find out whether or not I've
>>> done something that borked my package that's not obvious because I have
>>> some compiled .go file around in working directory or something.
>>
>> I use it too, occasionally!  :-)
>
> Me too!  It's great to test if all is fine.  What I'm also using is your
> git-file? hack
>
>     https://git.dthompson.us/guile-sdl2.git/blob/HEAD:/guix.scm
>
> does anyone see a nice way to put that function/functionaly in guix?

git-file? was snarfed from some internal Guix code that Ludovic wrote.
I would also like to see a public API for it.

- Dave