Re: extract tools from guix scripts

[Gábor Boskovits]

2018-03-08 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>:

Hi Guix,

under “guix/scripts” there are a couple of tools that are really useful,
such as “guix challenge”.  While they are great for the command line,
I’d really like to use them from within Guile.

Using “(guix-challenge)” directly is cumbersome, because I need to
provide an argument list “args”, which is then parsed internally.
Instead, I’d like to be able to say

   (challenge #:urls (list "a" "b")
              #:packages (list foo bar baz))

and have it produce some report values.  Then “guix-challenge” could be
implemented in terms of “challenge”.

The same might be useful for “guix-build” or “guix-environment”.

I agree. This would also enable more flexible cli possibilities, and

would be really useful for scripting. Does this idea fit to the

improve command line tools outreachy idea?

 

What do you think?

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Ricardo

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