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From: Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>,
	Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building a software toolchain that works
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:57:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qz4axzc.fsf@laura> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220314202659.oftyvymu7tjiycba@thebird.nl>

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:

> I can't believe that mess that is Rust cargo and npm packages today,
> for example. And they start out as the next new thing to solve all
> problems! If they would only would have used Guix to create a coherent
> build system...
> 
> And then I spent a week's effort on a CMake build system, and CMake is
> an ugly piece ofp work. I just kept thinking that if Guix was
> leveraged you could have a really simple build generator written in
> Lisp... Now wouldn't that be nice!

I dream of a build system 100% in Scheme that integrates itself natively
with Guix.  No more Makefile, nor auto-nighmares or bloated package
managers that like NPM.  Just a simple self describing Scheme record in
a human readable file that is easily trackabled in Git.

I've made something like this for a project of mine.  Generating a
Makefile from a description of the projects using Scheme.  However, I
believe now that the true power would be to have everything done in
Scheme instead.

On another note, what I find fascinating is why Guix and Nix are not
more used in academic papers.  A quick search on the Compendex database
gives me only a handful of papers referencing Guix, mostly all from
Ludovic.  I simply can't understand this.  You have a way to factor out
the toolchain from the equation of your research's resuls -- making it
trivial to reproduce -- and yet every papers that I read is using some
Ubuntu LTS or Fedora as their build and testing environment.

The same applies for embedded systems.  Why waste time with Yocto, Elbe,
Buildroot anymore?

-- 
Olivier Dion
Polymtl


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-14 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-14 19:05 Building a software toolchain that works Ryan Prior
2022-03-14 20:26 ` Pjotr Prins
2022-03-14 21:40   ` David Arroyo
2022-03-15  8:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-17  9:20       ` zimoun
2022-03-16 14:02     ` Josselin Poiret
2022-03-16 15:28       ` Ryan Prior
2022-03-16 20:13         ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-03-17 15:35     ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-17 16:56       ` David Arroyo
2022-03-14 23:57   ` Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2022-03-15  8:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-15  8:42       ` Pjotr Prins
2022-03-15 12:32       ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-03-17 12:56     ` zimoun
2022-03-18 21:13       ` david larsson
2022-03-18 23:59         ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-03-19 13:02         ` Windows Subsystem for Linux zimoun
2022-03-24 21:14           ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-25  3:43             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-25  9:04               ` Phil
2022-03-25 10:14                 ` Oliver Propst
2022-03-17 20:04   ` Building a software toolchain that works Katherine Cox-Buday
2022-03-18  6:27     ` Pjotr Prins
2022-03-18  9:10       ` Oliver Propst
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-17 12:06 zimoun

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