Re: GNU Mes 0.25 released

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

Congrats everyone. This is massive!

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 07:38:42AM +0100, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.25!
> 
> Although it's been only nine months since the previous release, this
> release represents 116 commits over two years by six people.  This
> release brings RISC-V64-linux support.
> 
> We are excited that the NLnet Foundation is sponsoring this work!
> 
> What's next?
> 
> Bringing the Full Source Bootstrap to NixOS.  Full Guile compatible
> module support, and support for running Gash and Gash-Utils.  Support
> for bootstrapping gcc-4.6.4, and a Full Source Bootstrap for
> armhf-linux, and riscv64-linux.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> * About
> 
>   GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the
>   GNU System.  It has helped to decimate the number and size of binary
>   seeds that were used in the bootstrap of GNU Guix 1.0.  Recently,
>   version 0.24.2 has realized the first Full Source Bootstrap for Guix
>   <https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/>.
>   The final goal is to help create a full source bootstrap as part of
>   the bootstrappable builds effort <https://bootstrappable.org> for any
>   UNIX-like operating system.
> 
>   Mes + MesCC + Mes C Library can build a bootstrappable TinyCC
>   <https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc> that is self-hosting.  Using this
>   bootstrappable-tcc and the Mes C library we can build an ancient
>   version of the GNU tools triplet: glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1,
>   gcc-2.95.3.  This is enough to bootstrap Guix for i686-linux,
>   x86_64-linux, armhf-linux and aarch64-linux.
> 
>   Mes was inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5 --
>   John McCarthy page 13, Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
>   Jeremiah Orians's Stage0 <https://github.com/oriansj/stage0>, a
>   ~500-byte self-hosting hex assembler.
> 
> * Download
> 
>   git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git
> 
>   Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
> 
>   Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz
>     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
> 
>   Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
> 
>   a0fcd35a32d16580cacb52add632d96eae0548a9  mes-0.25.tar.gz
>   325250b3567ed9203ba70161c835af01079e73ebed97b4b5bb77ca500b828940  mes-0.25.tar.gz
> 
>   [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
>   .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
>   and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
> 
>     gpg --verify mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
> 
>   If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
>   or that public key has expired, try the following commands to update
>   or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
> 
>     gpg --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
> 
>   Alternatively, Mes can be installed or updated using Guix:
> 
>     guix pull
>     guix install mes
> 
> 
> * Changes in 0.25 since 0.24.2
> 
>   ** Core
>   *** Support for riscv64-linux.
>   ** Build
>   *** Support M2-Planet build for x86_64-linux.
>   *** Building with M2-Planet-1.11.0 is now supported.
>   *** The requirement for M2-Planet's --bootstrap-mode was dropped.
>   ** Noteworthy bug fixes
>   *** In the REPL, `include', `load', and `,use MODULE' now work.
>   *** Using mes' `access' with R_OK now respects read permissions.
>   *** On 64bit, displayed values are no longer truncated.
>   *** On 64bit, MesCC now correctly supports 8-byte immediate values.
>   *** MesCC now initializes struct fields to 0.
>   *** The MesCC test suite passes with gcc >= 10
>   An array overflow bug was fixed in `63-struct-cell.c'.
>   *** Debugging MesCC binaries (function scope) has been resurrected.
> 
> Join bug-mes@gnu.org and #bootstrappable on irc.libera.chat for
> discussions.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
> 
>     12	Andrius Štikonas
>      1	Efraim Flashner
>     24	Ekaitz Zarraga
>      1	Emily Trau
>     69	Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
>     15	W. J. van der Laan
> 
> -- 
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