2018-04-09 17:30 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: > Hello! > > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > > > Indeed, I love working with Guix and developing with Guix. Guix takes > > care of my deployment and configuration requirements. > > > > I have written some time in the past that with Guix you don't need > > autotools. The main thing autotools solve is configuring the build for > > an environment. At the same time, with Guix you get a predictable > > environment, so a make file (or similar) suffices. It is what I do in > > all my development projects - I don't use autotools to develop and > > deploy them. It greatly simplifies my existence :). Indeed, I have > > never liked autotools (essentially a nasty hack) and only used them > > before Nix/Guix. So, my approach is the same as yours :) > > +1! > > If we could provide tooling with an abstraction level close to that of a > makefile, that’d help a lot. > > Actually, just like we have ‘emacs-build-system’, we could very much add > ‘guile-build-system’ for simple Guile packages that don’t need/use > Autoconf & co. > > ‘guile-build-system’ would automatically run ‘guild compile’, > ‘makeinfo’, etc. pretty much like we do here: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/ > packages/guile.scm#n870 > > Once we have that, developers of Guile packages can simply drop a > ‘.guix’ file in their project and use it with ‘guix environment’, ‘guix > build’, and ‘guix package’. > > That’s coarser-grain than a makefile, of course, but would be a good > first step to providing tooling for people working on Guile code. > > Any takers for ‘guile-build-system’? >
Ahem... that would be me This would be the most advanced thing I' ve ever done in Guile until now Recently rekado observed that (system*... does NOT spawn a shell and execute commands in it That was a surprise for me Also in the Guile manual I found getcwd and a "chdir" (or something) in order to run a Unix command from within a certain folder So I feel less in the dark than I felt until a short time ago And anyway, I' ll pester you, should I get stuck I won' t be fast, but I' ll keep you updated ;-) > > > A next step could be to add a tool that understands a syntax like that > of the guildhall, which gets us closer to the makefile/Makefile.am level > of abstraction: > > https://github.com/ijp/guildhall/blob/master/docs/packaging.texi#L121 it's early for this one We' ll see
