From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting rid of build tools
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 02:47:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151229014722.GA6686@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151228190536.GA5914@thebird.nl>
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 09:06:40AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I agree. It is actually in line with Eelco Dolstra's thinking more
> than 10 years ago (he created 'Maak'), though he did not use Guile.
>
> I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use
> make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the
> baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile
> generation tools that are automake and cmake. I guess it should be
> somewhere in between :). Yes a configurable Guile solution would be
> excellent.
For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make,
is here:
http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-29 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 8:23 Getting rid of build tools Pjotr Prins
2015-12-28 15:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-28 19:05 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 1:47 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-12-29 2:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 7:22 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-12-29 15:26 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 15:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-29 15:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 22:21 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-29 23:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-01 7:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-29 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-29 15:39 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-06 5:22 ` Pjotr Prins
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