Hello, Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes:
> A thought this morning... one challenge with Guile's 2.1 branch is it > takes a lonnnng time to bootstrap. There are good reasons for this, and > Andy Wingo has documented them: > > > http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile > > However, I can't help but wonder if we could reuse the initial > bootstrapped compiler. What if we had an external package that > contained *just* the scheme interpreter used to bootstrap the rest of > the system? We might not need to separate the codebase, but have this > be a separate make output. > > If you could package *just* the bootstrapped compiler, if a user doesn't > feel like waiting through the whole bootstrap process, they could use > the existing bootstrap package, like: > > ./configure --with-bootstrap=/path/to/guile-bootstrap > > and maybe we could have a guile-bootstrap package in guix, etc. If you > want to do the whole bootstrap yourself in the Guile package, you could > do so, but it wouldn't be a requirement, assuming you had that separate > package... > > Thoughts? Useful? Badly informed? > - Chris I feel the same way. I don't know about the technical details, but such convenience would be more than welcome. Thanks, -- Mathieu Lirzin