On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 03:34:08PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > When the chain becomes too long, we’ll host new bootstrap binaries > produced with Guix and cut the initial part of the chain. > > Thoughts?
This sounds like a very good approach for compilers written in their own language. Same will be true for the D compilers. The D compiler was recently ported to D and the authors say they will aim to keep support for bootstrapping from C - but they added it may grow complicated over time. I think the Elixir compiler will also be ported to Elixer in time... there have been some noises. The bootstrapping from source is a fine idea(l), but not always practical for package authors. Interesting point is if we can share one such cross-building binary compiler for all target platforms, or are we going to store binaries for each of them? Pj.
