Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <j...@gnu.org> writes:
> But my feeling is that the community > is heavily invested in autotools and Guix as /the/ build system (and > very happily so!) and i don't have the evangelising chops/time :) I don’t think anyone really like to use autotools. When working with just Guile I find autotools to be an annoying complication. I don’t *want* to use autotools and I only use a tiny portion of what it provides; I use it in recognition of the fact that it works on all systems I care about. I we had a simple system that lets people override install locations and provides good defaults I’d throw out autotools in a heartbeat. Guix on the other hand … is irreplaceable to me. Not because of how it installs Guile packages (it doesn’t do anything special), but because I don’t need to worry about how any other libraries I might need are provided or linked. Guix makes all the problems with non-Guile stuff disappear, across all supported systems. -- Ricardo
