Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello, > > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> Attached the notes from the "Bootstrap what's next" session yesterday. > > Thanks for sharing! > >> - Making the guix build system code less dependent on Guile and more >> dependent on MES > > Not necessarily more dependent on Mes :-), but rather portable between > the two.
Ah, sure -- my bad for simply forwarding the notes without really reading them, only adding the status update :-/ > On this topic, one action item we identified was to try and see what it > would take to run (guix build gnu-build-system) and the modules it > depends on on Mes. If we can run that on Mes during early bootstrap > (before Guile is built), then that’s a step towards removing the big > ‘%bootstrap-guile’ binary seed. > > These modules require some Guilish module support as well as a bunch of > (ice-9 *) and (srfi *) modules. Perhaps with some tricks such as > autoloads, we can reduce the number of modules actually needed. > > Another option is to write a simplified but compatible subset of (guix > build gnu-build-system) specifically for use during early bootstrap. > > At any rate, the first step is to try to feed that code to Mes and see > what happens. :-) > > If you’ve always wanted to join the bootstrapping movement, now’s your > opportunity! Yes, very nice! Note that we already have some experience with this: the Nyacc project is a Guile library that runs on Mes; only minor modifications were necesary. Greetings, Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
