From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Basile Starynkevitch Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile or scheme used to implement make or meson Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: <3cd636d9-5be9-4060-abe3-542df4a41672@starynkevitch.net> References: <87cyyntrzg.fsf@laura> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15252"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cc: Andy Tai , Olivier Dion To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 17:20:35 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qg5Br-0003lw-Eh for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg5BW-0008Qg-6P; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg5BV-0008QR-7J for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qg5BP-0002az-RV for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F1D75E000C; Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <87cyyntrzg.fsf@laura> X-GND-Sasl: basile@starynkevitch.net Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.196; envelope-from=basile@starynkevitch.net; helo=relay4-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:19187 Archived-At: On 9/12/23 15:56, Olivier Dion wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, Andy Tai wrote: >> Is using Guile, or a similar Scheme implementation, to re-implement >> make or meson realistic? > By re-implementing do you mean re-writing Make with Guile? That ought > to be realistic, but I really do not see the point of it. > > What is more realistic and useful is to make a build system in Guile > where the DSL that replaces Makefiles is Scheme. > > I think this already exist in GNU make. Recent versions of it can be extended in GNU guile: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Function.html BTW, my pet open source project (which uses GNU make without the guile extension) is the RefPerSys open source inference engine project (mostly coded in C++, with the ambition to generate C++ code or machine code thru GNU lightning), see https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ (and amateurish website http://refpersys.org/ ....). Contributors are welcome. Regards from near Paris in France. -- Basile Starynkevitch (only mine opinions / les opinions sont miennes uniquement) 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France web page: starynkevitch.net/Basile/