Hello, On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:53:37PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > A second step might be a simplified Guile build system, which does not > rely on autotools infrastructure. I believe this was discussed in the > past: it would be a "beginners build system" for *Guile only* packages > for quick and easy sharing in the Guix community. >
By beginners build system, do you mean a Guix build system that just copies the modules directory and compiles? Forgive my ignorance as someone who has no deep understanding of Guile/Guix, but I think it would be better if even simple Guile only packages used a build system like Meson or Autotools. Even Guile only packages should not need Guix or manual copying. The syntax of Autotools is too complicated IMHO, but using a general purpose build system like Meson for simple C projects is no more work than listing the source files and data files like pkg-config and this should apply to Guile projects as well. That said, a beginners Guix build system for pure Guile projects is done much more easily than making simple general purpose build systems support Guile. I’d like to take a look at Meson support for Guile and Guile implementations of Ninja and Meson, but I probably can’t/won’t commit the time… Well maybe… Regards, Florian
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