Re: obtaining source with Guix (was : The anti-GNU defamatory group of Ludovic Courtès - Re: assessment of the GNU Ass embly project)

Arun Isaac wrote:
>> In general, I don't find it easy to find source code for package
>> "hello".
>>     
>
> Don't know what you're talking about. It's very easy to get source code
> for a package. For example,
>
> $ guix build -S hello
>   

While we are drifting off-topic for this list, perhaps a more 
user-friendly option might be a "guix get-source" command?  As in,

$ guix get-source hello

would materialize the source tree for "hello" in the current directory?  
Or at least retrieve the sources and report where they are now located?

Another variation on the theme would be a "guix source get" command that 
downloads sources to the local pool and a "guix source unpack" that 
materializes a source tree "here".

Fundamentally, this is a user experience complaint, although it does 
involve a critical feature.


-- Jacob