On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:52:08PM -0300, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote: > After that movement to revive/improve GNU Mach, I decided to think in a > way to improve Hurd. After some talks on IRC I thought that a good start > point would be the use of a new programming language to the detriment of C, > something that turn translator code clear and that is powerful. > I think that nothing better than lisp to fill those requirements. > Looking for GNU projects to implement LISP, I decide that the modularity and > the small size of Guile would simplify and turn that new Hurd implementation > even better.
The GNU manifest talks about this. It's like a prophecy. :P We discussed this in the Bee project, resulting the creation of the "stut". (a sotware packaging manager that frontends stow and manages binary pkgsrc packages). > I do not want to describe everything on this mail, so if you have a > question, a sugestion or a criticism, fell free to send a answer ;) > Jemarch does that some time ago, AFAIK he started implementing a trivfs wrapper for the GNU/Guile. BTW, in Bee we're planning to use guile for the base system to use DMD and Stut. > The first point that I wanna expose is that the goal of this project is > not only complement the current translator interface, but create a new > interface that turns possible a complete rewrite of Hurd on Scheme. Stut will use the unionfs and it's planned to also use the trivfs for package query "virtualization". > So It cannot be done only creating bindings of hurd libraries, it > requests the creation of a new framework to create translators. Only that way > we will be able to have a simply and powerful framework. > To minimize the efects of the lost of performance caused by the use of > an interpreter, we will need to use guile-lightning (based on GNU lightning), > making the translator be compiled at runtime, so, the lost of performance > will be concentrated on the time of turning the translator up. > This makes a weighter process and a hard bootup. It depends on the translator task. > *A small roadmap > - Turn possible the creation of Mach Interfaces in Scheme > - Create a MiG that generates Guile code instead of C. Would be better to fix the actual MiG. He needs more love. > - Create a trivfs module This is partially done. > - Discuss how others modules would be and improve trivfs module This would be a nice task. Scheme is a nice language and the GNU system needs something good like this :) > - Rewrite hurd ;) > > Thanks AMS for some explanations > That's all. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > Bug-hurd@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
