From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 21:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1a6ocyqtb.fsf@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210530083847.o5ej63obqnzpwnbd@thebird.nl>
Hi Pjotr,
> Maybe this is a crazy idea:
Not crazy enough for me ;-)
Today's mess with language and platform specific build systems is indeed
a problem, and I have been thinking as well about how Guix could help
with this beyond what it already does. Guix' big achievement, beyond
being a practically useful tool, is demonstrating what it takes to have
a full system build system. Everyone's life would be easier if software
packaging were made more compatible with how Guix (and Nix of course)
work today. And one way to get the rest of the world move towards this
goal would be to help them: propose and implement changes to their build
systems that would make integration with Guix easier.
So...
> My idea is this: rather than generating 'imports' from native build
> packages for every target - which is kinda laborious in its way - we
> could translate an existing Rust/Node/Racket package into an
> intermediate simple package tar ball - call it a sexp-pack ;). This
How about pushing all the other package manager towards producing
sexp-packs, and helping them to get there?
Cheers,
Konrad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-30 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 8:38 Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo Pjotr Prins
2021-05-30 19:17 ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
2021-05-31 17:47 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 5:50 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 6:24 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 8:12 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 8:59 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 9:11 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 10:52 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 11:03 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 11:28 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 15:22 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:56 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-06-01 23:35 ` Joshua Branson
2021-06-08 13:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-14 14:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-14 22:04 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-15 8:48 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-15 10:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-06-20 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
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