Hi! Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis: >> >>> [...] Gzip saves writing “(delete 'compress-documentation)” over and >>> over). >> >> We should add a pure Scheme gzip implementation, for instance using the >> R6RS zlib implementation by Göran Weinholt in Industria. > > Bootar is already using that. The problem with the Industria version is > that it only does decompression. Fortunately, there’s an easy out here. > Gzip supports an uncompressed mode, so it would take only an hour or so > to write a “compressor” that just copies the data into Gzip format with > no compression. (I’m hoping that XZ can do something similar so that > applying patches in “origin” records does not need to depend on the XZ > we use to unpack Guile. Alternatively, we could add an option to > compress the patched sources with Gzip.) Oh I see. And yes, we could add an option to turn off compression or force use of gzip. >> Thanks! Any plan for a release? We could upgrade the package in >> ‘core-updates’. > > I’ve been holding on to “gcc-mesboot” as the milestone that would > warrant a release. On the other hand, I could try and reify the > progress so far into an improved “commencement.scm” that still uses some > old GNU utilities to build the last “mesboot” version of Glibc. Either > way, it will take some time since (as you know) my attention is on > Disarchive right now. :) Heheh, that’s great too. :-) Thanks! Ludo’.
