Re: What’s next?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I think you forgot to attach it.

>> * 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.

Me too!

>> * 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!

Danny submitted bug #27100 for this with two examples.

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Ricardo

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