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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 09:06:40AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I agree. It is actually in line with Eelco Dolstra's thinking more
> than 10 years ago (he created 'Maak'), though he did not use Guile.
> 
> I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use
> make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the
> baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile
> generation tools that are automake and cmake. I guess it should be
> somewhere in between :). Yes a configurable Guile solution would be
> excellent.

For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make,
is here:

  http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf

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