From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] gnu: Add idris-lightyear. Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 19:21:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170102171958.32131-1-david@craven.ch> <20170102171958.32131-4-david@craven.ch> <87shp08h2k.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTih-0001tb-Mw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:22:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTid-000880-Kt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:21:59 -0500 Received: from mail-qt0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::233]:34873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTid-00086V-GJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:21:55 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-x233.google.com with SMTP id c47so470059811qtc.2 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:21:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel > I=E2=80=99m not sure what a =E2=80=98phase-build-system=E2=80=99 would lo= ok like, if not like > =E2=80=98gnu-build-system=E2=80=99, but it=E2=80=99s an interesting idea = to explore. I think you are right, it would look exactly like the gnu-build-system. I think my issue wasn't technical but psychological. It feels like other build-systems aren't first class citizens, but that's a minor issue and wouldn't change anything worthwhile. > Dave Thompson recently suggested that maybe phases could be first-class, > i.e., directly exposed on the =E2=80=9Chost side=E2=80=9D, which is indee= d a valid > design question. Another thing worth exploring! Sounds interesting. Did he provide an example of what that would look like? > The =E2=80=98wip-build-systems-gexp=E2=80=99 branch is still around and I= plan to look > into it again=E2=80=A6 I was impressed by how easy it was to rebase it after 1.5 years! > Yeah, it=E2=80=99s too much boilerplate, though in this case I think it w= ould be > quite reasonable Yes that looks quite reasonable. Thank! David