Re: Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi!

(I’m late to the party…)

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> As Guix takes care of the first and the last - the issue centers
> around building. The idea is to dress down these language specific
> builders, such as cargo, so you don't have all the included
> complexity. 
>
> A sexp-pack would represent the most simple build instructions to
> build a package on its own. Now, of course the current guix-builders
> solve that too. But, what I am proposing is to split out the actual
> build step into a package definition, so as to present something
> simpler to Guix.
>
> I found a cargo -> ninja converter. It is that kind of idea. Guix
> would use ninja with rustc instead of cargo. A stripped down cargo
> could potentially work too - but cargo is a complex beast.

In a way, aren’t importers addressing this use case?

In the end, they let everyone develop a package manager/build system
that suits their needs, while still allowing us to have our cake.

WDYT?

Ludo’.