Re: guix.el & multiple outputs

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-07 01:11 +0400) wrote:

> Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> By the way, it might be nice to have an option to list the secondary
>> outputs of a package explicitly alongside the normal, as if it were just
>> another package.
>
> Currently *Guix Package List* shows, for instance:
>
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      out, debug    debug, out    Complete GCC 
> tool chain for C/C++ development
>
> Are you suggesting that it should instead show it as two lines?
>
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      out      yes   Complete GCC tool chain for 
> C/C++ development
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      debug    yes   Complete GCC tool chain for 
> C/C++ development
>
> I think I would prefer it.  (One advantage is that it would allow users
> to mark just one specific output, which is not currently possible.)

Hello,

I have made some changes to make that possible.  Also I would like to
push 2 more commits (the patches attached) with huge but internal
changes.  “guix-main.scm” is mostly rewritten (so the commit message is
big and ugly).  Now it looks purely functional for me (I finally removed
‘set-current-manifest-maybe!’).

As for the changes visible to a user: now it is possible to get a list
of outputs with “(setq guix-package-list-type 'output)”.  Should it be
default?

Another UI question: RET in “*Guix Package List*” buffer describes
current package(s) in “*Guix Package Info*” buffer.  Analogously, RET in
“*Guix Output List*” buffer describes current output(s) in “*Guix Output
Info*” buffer.  However I think it's not very useful: “output-info”
buffer is very similar to “package-info” but it contains only one output
per package info.  So I think it would be better to display a usual
“package-info” buffer (with all available outputs for a package) when a
user press RET in a list of outputs.  [not a clear description, isn't it :-)]
WDYT?

As always I'm not sure in the quality of the commit messages.

Thanks for your patience :)

0001-emacs-Use-general-functions-instead-of-generated-one.patch
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0002-emacs-Rewrite-scheme-side-in-a-functional-manner.patch
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0003-emacs-Add-support-for-displaying-outputs.patch
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