From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0@n0.is Subject: Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 12:04:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20190601120410.xkuclz2t2w2fqkzm@uptimegirl> References: <87ftowrztr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvdcji38.fsf@elephly.net> <87pnnyjmru.fsf@gnu.org> <878sulsncp.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hX2kd-0007wl-LJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:04:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hX2kZ-00022D-Tx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jun 2019 08:04:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878sulsncp.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: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Jan Nieuwenhuizen transcribed 759 bytes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Hi! > > >>> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on > >>> ‘core-updates’. Bad news: it depends on Python. > >> > >> I had to check the date. This is for real? > > > > It’s not a June 1st prank, I swear! > > Oh, great... not. > > >> I’ll take a look at python-on-guile and see if we can run the scripts > >> with it. > > > > That’d be sweet! > > Yes! ... Although...how are we -- in the far future -- going to replace > Guile with Mes for the Guix bootstrap? Could it be that the glibc > developers haven't seen my talk? :-/ Maintain a variant of glibc or your own libc? It's not that far off for an Operating System, and nothing which is impossible. > janneke > > -- > Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org > Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com >