Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hello Ludo, Timothy!

Finally another version of the new bootstrap situation.  Timothy, please
have a look and feel free to change/add some things!

It's also getting time to write a blog post on this, would you like to
help out with that?

>> * doc/guix.texi (@detailmenu): Add Bootstrapping menu.
>> (Scheme-only Bootstrap): New node.
>> * doc/images/gcc-core-mesboot0-scheme-only-graph.dot: New image.
>> * doc/local.mk (DOT_FILES): Add it.
>
> Great!  I wonder if we need a new section though.  Do you think we could
> just keep it all in a single bootstrapping section that would describe
> the current state of affairs, possibly with a “Bootstrapping History”
> section or similar that would describe the milestones that got us there?
[..]
> That way, the main bootstrapping section would simply describe the
> current status in a standalone fashion.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.  I started to rework this by adding a
History section but in the end I removed it again, describing the
current situation while mentioning the gcc-triplet reduction in Guix
v1.1.

>> +@c
>> +packages@footnote{@c
>> +gash-boot,
>> +gash-utils-boot,
>> +%bootstrap-mes-rewired,
>> +gzip-mesboot,
>
> I wouldn’t list them all here because (1) it’s hard to understand what
> these names refer to, unless reading commencement.scm is your favorite
> hobby ;-), and (2) it’s bound to become outdated.
>
> WDYT?

Yes, instead of adding more of these, I also removed the previous list.

>> +As Gash and Gash Utils mature, and GNU packages become more

@Timothy: this is possibly touching very lightly on what Gash has
brought us; do you want to share some more here?

>> +bootstrappable (e.g., new releases of GNU Sed will also ship in
[..]
>> +@image{images/gcc-core-mesboot0-scheme-only-graph,6in,,Dependency graph of gcc-core-mesboot0}
>
> It would be nice to have a couple of lines commenting the graph, like:

Sure!  Updated version attached.

Greetings,
Janneke