Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Simon, > >> Maybe I miss a point. It is not: "watch out, this will do something >> else in the future" but "watch out, this was doing something else in >> the past and the change happened the in ". > > Concrete example: I am writing a tutorial about using Guix for > reproducible research. It shows several uses of "guix environment", some > of them without '–add-hoc' or '–inputs-of'. I know my examples will > cease to work in a few months. What am I supposed to do about this? This is the point where we need to ask ourselves: Should Guix be volatile software? http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/ Also: Software developers should avoid traumatic changes https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/26/Avoid-traumatic-changes.html Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken