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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Scanner: mx11.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.49 X-Spam-Score: -6.49 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 451888AFC2 X-TUID: euU8XOSwoWub Divya Ranjan writes: Hello, > The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools, > meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn=E2=80=99t Guix which has such > powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not > have a purely Guile-based build tool? After all, our goal is to make > deployment, and building both more declarative and away from the > all-too-familiar =E2=80=9Cdependency hell=E2=80=9D. [..] > I was indicated by others that such an idea has previously been > conceievd among Guix developers themselves, namely as a GSoC > proposal[0]. I couldn=E2=80=99t find if that has progressed towards anyth= ing, > nor could find anything in the mailing list. >From my notes I have * make in Guile: potato-make, bespoke ** https://github.com/spk121/potato-make ** https://codeberg.org/lechner/bespoke but there's probably more. And then there's also the Guix Workflow Language. Greetings, Janneke --=20 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond https://LilyPond.org Freelance IT https://www.JoyOfSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE https://AvatarAcade= my.com