Hello, > We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.20, representing > 147 commits over 38 weeks. > > Mes has now brought the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to Guix (bootstrap > a GNU/Linux system without binary GNU toolchain or equivalent). It > should land in Guix master any day now: a big thank you to everyone who > helped, notably Ludovic and Mark. > > This release is a step towards the upcoming Scheme-only bootstrap and > bringing Mes into NixOS and Debian. This effort is now sponsored by > NLnet[12]. > > Next targets: > > - ARM support > - Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap for ARM > - Scheme-only bootstrap: use Guile and Gash to remove bash, > coreutils&co, grep, sed, etc. from the Guix bootstrap binaries > - mes-m2: port Mes.c to M2-Planet > - Introduce Reduced Binaries Seed bootstrap to NixOS > - Debian? > - Hurd
Thanks for the update, Jan! I'm really thrilled to see this effort moving forward. Congratulations for the release! Maxim
