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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New Gash build Bash without Bash, Coreutils, and a few others
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:16:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o98v3tzq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1k2b0df.fsf@ngyro.com> (Timothy Sample's message of "Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:23:40 -0500")

Hi Timothy,

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> I am very pleased to announce that Gash (having absorbed Geesh) is now
> capable of building Bash without Bash, Coreutils, Grep, Sed, or Tar.
> That is, Gash provides alternatives, written in Scheme, to all the
> utilities needed by the “gnu-build-system” that are normally provided by
> those packages.  Note, however, that this work is still very much at the
> “proof of concept” level.

Woohoo!  \o/  It’s one of these things we’ve been talking about for some
time and it’s exciting to see it come to fruition.

Also, thumbs up to the two of you for coming up with a merger plan.

Thank you, and best bootstrapping wishes for the new year!

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-05 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-22  5:23 New Gash build Bash without Bash, Coreutils, and a few others Timothy Sample
2018-12-22 14:48 ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-22 18:39 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-01-05 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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