Another thing that just came to my mind is the hard-coding of file name separators instead of using a combination of checkers to see if the 'file-name-separator-string matches the *target* system (as is briefly told in `info guile', the GNU Guile Scheme infopage). Although I don't know if macOS uses "\" or "/". If macOS does use "\", besides having to make all the attempts to change paths lookup for that separator evaluation, thus potentially causing extra work, this could require a major rewrite of package definitions and rebuilds.
Besides, I agree that things should be built entirely with free/libre software. And I don't know if macOS allows us to do that (thanks to, along other things, the non-existance of community-oriented copyleft enforcement by the copyright holders of the XNU/BSD kernel projects). Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Guix, > > I want to get Guix working on macOS. I recently had a need to do this, > and I was sad to find that although Nix works on macOS, Guix isn't quite > there yet. The manual makes it sound like this should be fairly > straightforward, and I intend to give it a shot [1]. But before I > begin, I wanted to know: has anyone done this already? Is there > interest? I've checked the email lists, and I didn't find much > discussion about this. > > I know a lot of developers who use macOS as their primary workstation, > and most of them use a combination of Homebrew [2] and manual > installation for package management. It'd be great if Guix were easy to > use on macOS! Not only is it the best package manager (of course! :-)), > but it would be a great way to encourage the use and growth of free > software among this group of people. > > Additionally, if you're interested in helping out, please let me know. > To facilitate the work, I'm temporarily renting a Mac from MacStadium > [3] (it's just a weak little Mac Mini [4] for now), and it would be > trivial to give interested parties administrative access (via VNC and > SSH) to facilitate the work. > > Footnotes: > [1] info '(guix) Porting' > > [2] https://brew.sh/ > > [3] https://www.macstadium.com/ > > [4] https://www.macstadium.com/mac-mini/ -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM.
