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[PATCH 0/2] Make 'guix help' helpful
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Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 20:36:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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#43159: [PATCH 0/2] Make 'guix help' helpful
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:
> Here’s a v2 of the patches, where I tried to take your feedback into
> account. Changes:
>
> • Categories that appear in uses of ‘define-command’ are now validated
> at macro-expansion time.
>
> • (guix scripts) contains an alist of the known categories and
> ‘show-help’ traverses it.
>
> • Changed the label for development commands to “commands for
> development”, and changed “advanced” to “plumbing”.
>
> • Added a “packaging” category.
>
> • Fixed the typos you reported.
I pushed this v2 as 3794ce93be8216d8378df7b808ce7f53b1e05a53.
Let’s iterate from here if people have ideas about better categorization
or things like that.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Hey Guix!
Here’s another long-overdue change that was brought to my
attention: making ‘guix help’ show a synopsis of each command.
While at it, it also groups them in categories (I more or
less followed the manual, but there’s prolly room for
improvement, like a ‘packaging’ category maybe?):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix help
Usage: guix COMMAND ARGS...
Run COMMAND with ARGS.
COMMAND must be one of the sub-commands listed below:
main commands:
deploy deploy operating systems on a set of machines
describe describe the channel revisions currently used
gc invoke the garbage collector
install install packages
package manage packages and profiles
pull pull the latest revision of Guix
remove removed installed packages
search search for packages
show show information about packages
system build and deploy full operating systems
time-machine run commands from a different revision
upgrade upgrade packages to their latest version
weather report on the available of pre-built package binaries
commands for developers:
build build packages or derivations without installing them
container run code in containers created by 'guix environment -C'
edit view and edit package definitions
environment spawn one-off software environments
import import a package definition from an external repository
pack create application bundles
refresh update existing package definitions
advanced usage:
archive manipulate, export, and import normalized archives (nars)
challenge challenge substitute servers, comparing their binaries
copy copy store items remotely over SSH
download download a file to the store and print its hash
git operate on Git repositories
graph view and query package dependency graphs
hash compute the cryptographic hash of a file
lint validate package definitions
offload set up and operate build offloading
processes list currently running sessions
publish publish build results over HTTP
repl read-eval-print loop (REPL) for interactive programming
size profile the on-disk size of packages
Report bugs to: bug-guix <at> gnu.org.
GNU Guix home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>
General help using Guix and GNU software: <https://guix.gnu.org/help/>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Much more… helpful than what we currently have, no? :-)
This works by introducing a new ‘define-command’ macro that each
command now uses and where it defines its synopsis. ‘guix help’
actually reads files in search of ‘define-command’, which is cheaper
than loading each module and doing some sort of introspection.
The URL shown at the end (“General help”) is also changed, as was
rightfully suggested by zimoun a while back.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
PS: We can talk about categories, but make sure to turn on the
bikeshedding limitation mode of your mail client. :-)
Ludovic Courtès (2):
scripts: Use 'define-command' and have 'guix help' use that.
ui: '--help' output links to <https://guix.gnu.org/help/>.
guix/scripts.scm | 29 ++++++++++-
guix/scripts/archive.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/authenticate.scm | 8 ++-
guix/scripts/build.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/challenge.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/container.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/copy.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/deploy.scm | 3 +-
guix/scripts/describe.scm | 3 +-
guix/scripts/download.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/edit.scm | 7 ++-
guix/scripts/environment.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/gc.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/git.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/graph.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/hash.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/import.scm | 8 ++-
guix/scripts/install.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/lint.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/offload.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/pack.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/package.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/perform-download.scm | 18 ++++---
guix/scripts/processes.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/publish.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/pull.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/refresh.scm | 7 ++-
guix/scripts/remove.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/repl.scm | 5 +-
guix/scripts/search.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/show.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/size.scm | 7 ++-
guix/scripts/substitute.scm | 7 ++-
guix/scripts/system.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/time-machine.scm | 4 +-
guix/scripts/upgrade.scm | 6 ++-
guix/scripts/weather.scm | 4 +-
guix/ui.scm | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
38 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
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