From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Getting rid of build tools Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:37:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvst1d1v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151227082320.GA613@thebird.nl> <87oadalfr7.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20151228190536.GA5914@thebird.nl> <20151229014722.GA6686@thebird.nl> 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]:40998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDwKx-0002YB-Ul for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:37:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDwKt-000540-1I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:37:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151229014722.GA6686@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 02:47:23 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins skribis: > For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make, > is here: > > http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf It would be interesting to see what a Maak translated to Guile + Guix would look like. The =E2=80=98makeLibrary=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98compileC=E2=80=99, and other fu= nctions used as illustrations in the paper would be quite easy to write using our current APIs. Ludo=E2=80=99.