Re: Mes 0.5 released

[Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:

> Arne Babenhauserheide writes:
>
>> Wow! Congratulation on full bootstrapping of mes!
>
> Thanks, Arne!
>
>> So we can now build mes.c with mescc driven by Guile and then use mes to
>> run mescc again to build mes.c?
>
> Yes, that's correcct.  mes.c can be compiled with either gcc
>
>     make out/mes
>
> or with [32 bit] gcc -nostdinc -nostdlib
>
>     make out/i686-unknown-linux-gnu-mes
>
> or with guile
>
>     guile/mescc.scm src/mes.c > out/mes.guile
>
> or with mes
>
>     scripts/mescc.mes src/mes.c > out/mes.mes
>
> Now the route can go up (my first aim)
>
>   - compile tcc, guile or gcc
>
> or it can go down
>
>   - add separate assembly step, assembly output
>   - use stage0+ project, esp rewrite mes.c in stage2-LISP
>   - use/work with epsilon?
>
> or it can stay level
>
>   - cleanup mescc
>   - fix bugs
>   - look into Nyacc
>   - decide on psyntax
>
> Greetings,
> janneke

Wow... what a list...

This is really incredible work!  Fully bootstrappable Guix is looking
more and more feasible!