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From: <mcsinyx@disroot.org>
To: "Mája Tomášek" <maya.tomasek@disroot.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strategy for Zig packages
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:21:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CLVAH250NBKA.32AZ0R6VV1YR8@nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu6veltd.fsf@disroot.org>

On Mon Aug 1, 2022 at 10:43 PM +0200, Mája Tomášek wrote:
> More realistic (imo) is that zig should be encouraged to build
> dynamically linked packages, not static ones, and allow the ability
> (with their future package manager) for the distribution to distribute
> it's libraries C-style.

Technically this is not always possible since Zig relies
on compile-time execution for generic.

> If there's a newer version required, it should
> be up to the distribution mantainers to fix that.

Zig source files could be handled in the same manner as C headers
however, and be used as native inputs, so downstream can still
update a library for all dependees at once.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-02  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-26 10:56 Strategy for Zig packages mcsinyx
2022-07-26 18:48 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-26 19:23   ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-01 20:43 ` Mája Tomášek
2022-08-02  5:21   ` mcsinyx [this message]
2022-08-02  9:09     ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-03  3:35       ` mcsinyx
2022-08-04 23:56         ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-02  9:11     ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-02  9:01   ` Maxime Devos

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