Hi Ludo, On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 12:09, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> The current tip of ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ Just Works; it’s being built, > it can build ‘guix’ and cross-build things like ‘sed’: > > > https://data.guix-patches.cbaines.net/repository/2/branch/wip-build-systems-gexp > > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/wip-build-systems-gexp (though Cuirass > currently has unrelated problems) Cool! > In terms of performance, there’s still a ~10% slowdown when computing > derivations compared to the ‘core-updates’ revision the branch is based > on. Less cool! :-) > Here’s what I’d like to do in the coming days, if that doesn’t interfere > with what others have in mind for the upcoming release: > > • Monitor build failures due to typos/thinkos made while adjusting > build systems; > > • Merge on ‘core-updates’. [...] > That said, if people think it’s too late in the cycle, we could just as > well keep it for the next cycle. I do not think it interferes with the release since for now and except a big change, the plan is to release without the core-updates merge. Well, that’s my understanding of the previous discussion. Cheers, simon