From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvlhaq9g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhv9rk5o.fsf@fastmail.com> (Joshua Branson's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:11:31 -0400")
Hello,
Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>> The story of ‘build-expression->derivation’ is that of an unfinished
>> transition to G-expressions. :-)
>>
>> There’s a branch called ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ that aims to complete
>> that transition, but I haven’t yet gotten around to actually finishing
>> the work. This is one of the things I want us to complete for 1.0
>> though, so sooner rather than later.
>
> May I ask why the transition? Just curious.
G-expressions address shortcomings of plain s-expressions when used to
write build expressions as in Guix and for code generation in general
(“code staging”); see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01580582/en
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-18 19:29 Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems? Alex Vong
2018-10-19 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-19 16:11 ` Joshua Branson
2018-10-20 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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