On Sat, 07 Mar 2026, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: [...]
> And, there’s some good news! I hear fellow hackers have been working on > this thing called BLUE, which could address our tarball problem as well! > That is, once Guix uses BLUE as its build system, ‘make dist’ is > effectively gone, and at that point it building from a Git checkout or > ‘git archive’ is the normal experience. Note that I had in mind to have a similar thing to `dist' for BLUE. Exporting eveything to shell would be very nice, but very much impossible. Other alternatives I see are: - Embedding a full Guile interpreter writte in shell - Compiling to WASM using Hoot In any cases, if one can live with installing Guile first, then all of this does not matter. -- Olivier Dion
