From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Rust Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:57:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20160730175705.GA20734@thebird.nl> References: <20160325184540.4e02cb2d@scratchpost.org> <87k2kq6wma.fsf@grrlz.net> <87oa8mt8lh.fsf@gmail.com> <87eg9gzgqb.fsf@libertad.pw> <87popyp3od.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20160728203144.7df4bb8c@itchy> <87mvl0a302.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <1469806462.309573.680485345.76401C68@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87invnckrz.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]:49397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTYVn-0007Vs-Ia for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:57:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTYVh-00087M-JO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:57:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87invnckrz.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 03:34:08PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > When the chain becomes too long, we=E2=80=99ll host new bootstrap binar= ies > produced with Guix and cut the initial part of the chain. >=20 > Thoughts? This sounds like a very good approach for compilers written in their own language. Same will be true for the D compilers. The D compiler was recently ported to D and the authors say they will aim to keep support for bootstrapping from C - but they added it may grow complicated over time. I think the Elixir compiler will also be ported to Elixer in time... there have been some noises. The bootstrapping from source is a fine idea(l), but not always practical for package authors. Interesting point is if we can share one such cross-building binary compiler for all target platforms, or are we going to store binaries for each of them? Pj.