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* Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped
@ 2016-03-21 17:54 Thompson, David
  2016-03-21 19:15 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 26+ messages in thread
From: Thompson, David @ 2016-03-21 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Haskell, OCaml, Chicken, and other compilers that we package have a
serious issue that many of us are aware of: they cannot be built from
source!  They rely upon pre-built binaries of the same compiler.  I
understand that it's very inconvenient to not have these compilers
available to us, and all of the software that is written in their
respective languages, but I feel like all of our work is undermined by
making exceptions for them.  I would like to remove compilers that
don't have a bunch of dependent packages yet such as Chicken until
upstream fixes the issue.  But we have tons of Haskell packages and a
handful of OCaml packages and it would be heartbreaking to some to
remove all of that hard work.

What can we possibly do to avoid being yet another distro that relies
on a bunch of blobs (leaving the *true* bootstrap binaries out of it
for now)?

- Dave

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2016-03-21 17:54 Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped Thompson, David
2016-03-21 19:15 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-21 19:22   ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-21 19:32   ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-21 22:43 ` rain1
2016-03-22 16:23   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-21 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-22  9:56   ` Jookia
2016-03-22 16:25     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-22 14:57   ` Eric Bavier
2016-03-22 16:22     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-22 22:29   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-23 22:12     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 22:49       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-24  3:11         ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-25 23:08           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-26  0:22             ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-26  6:40               ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-26  6:55                 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-26  9:02                   ` Jookia
2016-03-26 14:05                   ` Alex Vong
2016-03-26  8:12                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-26  9:23                   ` Jookia
2016-03-26 14:31                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-26 17:19                     ` Christopher Allan Webber
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