Re: What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Here are some other annoyances:
>
> * the verbosity of reporting hash mismatches.  You posted a neat little
>   change for that some time ago, but I cannot find it any more.

Oh right, see attached.

> * texlive.  I’m working on splitting the package up.  (An aggressive
>   firewall at work put a stop to that work, but I’ll try to resume very
>   soon.)

Good point!  Looking forward to that.

> * very explicit but cryptic stack traces.  I think that all errors
>   should be reported more nicely.  The error can still be printed (on
>   demand?), but Guix probably should not spill its innards too readily.

I agree with this direction, but we’ll have to work on concrete cases
here.  Bug reports of the form “when I do this I get a stack trace
instead of an error message” are welcome!

Thanks,
Ludo’.