From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Jeremiah@pdp10.guru
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:48:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tk0fb14.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmow357w.fsf@ITSx00.pdp10.guru> (Jeremiah@pdp10.guru's message of "Fri, 07 Jul 2017 06:34:59 -0400")
Jeremiah@pdp10.guru writes:
> Well looking at the contents of psyntax-pp.scm
> (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=module/ice-9/psyntax-pp.scm;h=e2ebeced117d4c43ca2eb3ca3a1b659f3fb62d9a;hb=HEAD)
> I would argue it counts as source code as it is in a form that is human
> readable and modifiable.
The GNU licenses define "source code" as "the preferred form of the work
for making modifications to it". I think it is quite important for our
future liberty that we hold to this definition and not accept a weaker
one.
> But I am glad that you were concerned about potential non-human readable
> sources required in bootstraps :D
Yes, this is an area of great concern for me, hence my efforts to
mitigate the problem.
Thanks,
Mark
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2017-07-07 10:34 [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm? Jeremiah
2017-07-07 16:48 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
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