From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:48:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7f1jlpp.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87ftowrztr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvdcji38.fsf@elephly.net> <87pnnyjmru.fsf@gnu.org> <878sulsncp.fsf@gnu.org> <20190601120410.xkuclz2t2w2fqkzm@uptimegirl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXXGx-0005TX-NR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:40:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXXFJ-0002br-Nl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:38:26 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXXFJ-0002at-E2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:38:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190601120410.xkuclz2t2w2fqkzm@uptimegirl> 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: ng0@n0.is Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ng0@n0.is writes: >> 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 impos= sible. Since we=E2=80=99re all part of the GNU project our aim should be to make t= his work without having to fork the C library. Maintaining a variant of the C library is not a realistic option, because it=E2=80=99s enough work to maintain each of the other GNU packages= that are involved in this endeavor. --=20 Ricardo