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

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On 2024-12-19 22:17, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Dont forget CWL.

Pjotr Prins did a great writeup on an approach 5 years ago:
http://hpc.guix.info/blog/2019/01/creating-a-reproducible-workflow-with-cwl/

Greetings,

Jonathan