On 10/10/13 10:14, Allan McRae wrote: > On 10/10/13 00:24, Dave Reisner wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:36:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >>> make-4.0 has this new feature: >>> >>> * New feature: GNU Guile integration >>> This version of GNU make can be compiled with GNU Guile integration. >>> GNU Guile serves as an embedded extension language for make. >>> See the "Guile Function" section in the GNU Make manual for details. >>> Currently GNU Guile 1.8 and 2.0+ are supported. In Guile 1.8 there is no >>> support for internationalized character sets. In Guile 2.0+, scripts >>> can be >>> encoded in UTF-8. >>> >>> I'd like to enable it so we can hang with the cool kids... Building >>> make against guile means we will need to bring it to [core] along with >>> its dependencies gc and libunistring. Using optdepends is not an option. >>> >>> Any objections to this? >>> >> >> This seems pretty useless. Is there an immediate want/need for this >> somewhere? > > Not really. But it won't be long before some project uses it and I get > bug reports. And given this is the major new feature for this release, > it would be a shame to not add it. > > How about just compiling make against guile and leaving guile and > friends in [extra]? I care if make breaks, but not so much about the > guile integration. >
Was there any objections about that? Do we care about repo hierarchy for depends? The integrity check emails suggest not for [extra]/[community], but I guess [core] is different. Allan