Re: On a Guile-based Build-Tool complimenting Guix

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Divya Ranjan writes:

Hello,

> The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
> meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
> powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
> have a purely Guile-based build tool? After all, our goal is to make
> deployment, and building both more declarative and away from the
> all-too-familiar “dependency hell”.

[..]

> I was indicated by others that such an idea has previously been
> conceievd among Guix developers themselves, namely as a GSoC
> proposal[0]. I couldn’t find if that has progressed towards anything,
> nor could find anything in the mailing list.

From my notes I have

* make in Guile: potato-make, bespoke
** https://github.com/spk121/potato-make
** https://codeberg.org/lechner/bespoke

but there's probably more.  And then there's also the Guix Workflow
Language.

Greetings,
Janneke

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