Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.1.1)

[alex sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, 17:09 Ludovic Courtès, <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Heya,
>
> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> >> I wonder if it would be useful to have a “standalone” mode, where Hall
> >> would rely neither on Autoconf/Automake nor on Guix to do basic things
> >> like building code.  It might help newcomers.  You wouldn’t want to
> >> reimplement everything though, so I don’t know if this is a viable
> >> approach.  Thoughts?
> >
> > Interesting idea.  When you say building code, do you mean literally
> > compiling a project within the project folder & perhaps generating a
> > wrapper script that might update GUILE_LOAD_{COMPILED_}PATH à la
> > pre-inst-env, or do you mean some form of installer?
>
> I’m thinking of a “hall build” command that would build Scheme files and
> produce a wrapper script, and optionally “hall install” as well.


> It’s interesting only if it can be done without reimplementing too much
> of the Autoconf/Automake or Guix logic, I suppose.
>

Agreed. I do think having some easy way of "running" your project would be
cool.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Alex