Re: User-Friendlyness of Guix and non-scaryness, printing messages

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Sun, 28 May 2017 23:12:44 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> >> Perhaps for `guix package`, but I disagree for `guix build` and others.
> >> It prints *only* the new store items on stdout, and this makes it very
> >> easy to compose Guix commands. We should not break this.  
> >
> > I agree. guix build is different.  Its whole point is to do that.
> >
> > The scripts I mean are:
> > - guix package
> > - guix system  
> 
> Agreed for these.

I forgot guix environment.

> I’ve just pushed an old experiment as ‘wip-ui’ to give an idea of what I
> mean.  If it still works, ‘guix package’ shows N line about the ongoing

I'll check it out...

> progress, where N is the number of parallel jobs (--max-jobs).  It could
> be as concise as this:
> <http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html>.

Hmm, is that the correct URL ? :)