On November 19, 2020, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
[--without-tests] would encourage untested builds if I
recall correctly
That may have been a concern (I wasn't part of the conversation) but I don't see how the current implementation could do that. If a normal "guix build foo" fails, then it's a busted package period.
I'm glad for the "without-tests" option because when I'm working on packages with a test suite that takes more than a few seconds, I like to make sure that the rest of everything is working before I start running the tests.
Another thing I'd like is an option to build a package reusing the state from a previous build. If a package I'm working on takes a minute or longer to build and I'm having some sort of difficulty, it's obnoxious to wait for that to complete again after every cycle. It could be near instantaneous if I could re-use a cached build, which is doable in Docker, Earthly, and other containerized build systems.