From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Getting rid of build tools Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:40:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20151229154049.GD9031@thebird.nl> References: <20151227082320.GA613@thebird.nl> <87oadalfr7.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20151228190536.GA5914@thebird.nl> <20151229014722.GA6686@thebird.nl> <87mvst1d1v.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDwOX-0003dA-NJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:41:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDwOS-0006dr-OW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:41:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mvst1d1v.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:37:16PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > > > > http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf >=20 > It would be interesting to see what a Maak translated to Guile + Guix > would look like. >=20 > The =E2=80=98makeLibrary=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98compileC=E2=80=99, and othe= r functions used as illustrations > in the paper would be quite easy to write using our current APIs. Absolutely. If some ambituous hacker wants to try I am sure we are happy to support the project. Maybe it is an idea for GSoC too. Pj.