From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GSoC build tool clarification Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:39:15 +0200 Message-ID: <874ly7b130.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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]:37579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cubyw-000838-HD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 05:39:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cubyr-0008DS-Jt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 05:39:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Caleb Ristvedt's message of "Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:20:23 -0500") 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: Caleb Ristvedt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Pjotr Prins Hi Caleb, Welcome! :-) Caleb Ristvedt skribis: > The description of "replaces the likes of autools, cmake" makes sense, but > I'm not sure I understand the more advanced features being described - > specifically "... should ultimately be able to run complex workflows on > multiple servers...". Does that just mean that the build process should be > able to be distributed across systems, or is there more to that implied by > the "complex" part? I think Pjotr (Cc=E2=80=99d) wrote that part, so I=E2=80=99ll let him comme= nt on this. :-) (I realized the next section, =E2=80=9CRewrite build daemon in Guile Scheme= =E2=80=9D, had lost its title so I readded it: .) Ludo=E2=80=99.