Re: Creating a C/C++ team?

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Hi Greg,

Am Montag, dem 25.11.2024 um 13:27 -0500 schrieb Greg Hogan:
> Guix,
> 
> Should we have a C++ team? I think project contributions regarding C
> and C++ compilers, libraries, tools, and programs would benefit from
> a tag to flag, discuss, and triage issues and a team branch to
> manage, test, and pre-build patches.
> 
> This team would of course be distinct from the core-packages team,
> which manages the most fundamental packages and challenging updates.
I think there is a risk that this still overlaps with core-packages on
the account of GCC being our main C/C++ toolchain.

Note: while I'm already swamped with work on gnome and emacs, I would
be interested in joining a hypothetical c++ team.

> diff --git a/etc/teams.scm b/etc/teams.scm
> index fe3291f914..e257650a04 100755
> --- a/etc/teams.scm
> +++ b/etc/teams.scm
> @@ -611,0 +612,14 @@ (define-team zig
> +(define-team c++
> +  (team 'c++
> +        #:name "C/C++ team"
> +        #:description
> +        "C and C++ compilers, libraries, tools, and programs"
I would limit the scope to "libraries and tools".  That programs happen
to be written in C/C++ is almost always incidental :)

> +        #:scope (list "gnu/packages/c.scm"
> +                      "gnu/packages/cpp.scm"
Of course.

> +                      "gnu/packages/llvm.scm"
> +                      "gnu/packages/llvm-meta.scm"
Not sure about these two.  Since our main use for LLVM is in
Rust/Zig/Mesa, all of which have their own teams, maybe we should leave
a broader LLVM team with members from all of that open for folks who
are not necessarily interested in the rest of C/C++.

> +                      "gnu/packages/ninja.scm"
> +                      "gnu/packages/valgrind.scm"
If we add these, I would also suggest adding build-tools.scm,
check.scm, debug.scm etc.

> +                      "gnu/build/cmake-build-system.scm"
> +                      "gnu/build-system/cmake.scm")))
These are under guix/ and belong to the core team IIRC.

Cheers