Reproducible builds of D compilers http://forum.dlang.org/post/fsmdaethvbvcxnunb...@forum.dlang.org
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 01:30:18AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 09:52:32AM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote: > > Hello Guixlings, > > > > One thing I think the Guix project should do is work with the > > reproducible builds folks to publish a document explaining the issues > > involved with self-hosted compilers. It should encourage language > > communities to continuously maintain some way to build their language > > starting from hand-written C source code (or another language which can > > itself be bootstrapped from C). It could also mention that some members > > of our community are exploring ways to bootstrap gcc. > > > > What do you think? It might be a total flop, but it looks like something > > we should try anyway! At the moment I do not see other communities > > talking about this. Guix is deeply concerned about these issues, but > > ultimately we cannot fix everything alone. If we can convince the > > Rust/OCaml/Haskell folks that this is important, we may be able to > > attract a much larger group of people to bear on the problem. > > > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > -- > > Alex Griffin > > > > It's not something I had really thought of before, with the focus being > on reproducable building of packages. It doesn't take much, though, to > realize that you have to start from somewhere to get reproducable and > trustable binaries. While it's easy to throw up your hands and say "its > turtles all the way down," the more the turtles rest on C's turtles the > better. > > -- > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר > GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 > Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --
