Hello Schemers, A while ago I presented my MessagePack implementation for Guile[1] here and I want to make it available to users. Guile has no dedicated package manager, so it's either manual or Guix, and I would like to support both. What it the best way of doing it?
So far I have a repository that can be used right away with Guile by adding its path to the load path. This is handy for testing and working where I just just invoke Guile as `guile -L .`. For more permanent installation I have a makefile, it "builds" everything into `./build` (i.e. inside the repo) and from there the user could copy-paste the files into the desired directory. I was thinking of adding an "install" target to the makefile which would copy the directory structure of `./build` to the directory given by `$PREFIX`. The user could then type make lib doc && make PREFIX=/usr/local install to get everything installed globally. A package manager like Guix could just specify a different `PREFIX`. Is this reasonable? And where exactly should the Guile code be placed? I have $(PREFIX)/share/guile/site/$(guile_ver)/msgpack as the directory for now. The value of `$guile_ver` is determined automatically at build time: guile_ver = $(shell $(GUILE) -c '(display (effective-version))') This would only make the module available for Guile 2.2, no other version. Is there a better directory? I guess I could use GNU Autotools instead of a manually written makefile, but I would rather stick to what I know and is simple for such a simple project. [1] https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/guile-msgpack