On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Hullo Olivier, > > I was going to apply the patch below to fix the password-store > package, but Maxime just submitted another version which I prefer. > I'd rather not provide two trees in Guix. I'm fine with both solutions. In the end, password-store is not broken, only its test suite. > Olivier Dion 写道: >> I've contacted the maintainer asking for removal of the feature in >> its next release. > > After some consideration, I think it's an interesting feature. > Something like this is long overdue. > > I don't know if this approach is the right one, but I'll > begrudgingly settle for JSON if it finally catches on… Just to be clear that the JSON is still there with the switch -J. I just think that using some random file descriptor like this is a path to break many tools. Any program that open a file and try to do a popen(3) with "tree" for its output will get bitten by it. It's not like if `stddata` is some common knowledge outside of the PowerShell world. >> and believe me when I say that this is not an easy bug to track >> down ;-). > > Fully agree! I wasted too much time trying to track it down > myself. I blame password-store's spaghetto of redirection more > than tree. Happy to know I'm not the only one who spend way too much time on this ^^ -- Olivier Dion Polymtl