2018-04-18 23:09 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: > Hello, > > Christopher Lemmer Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > > > While this is a fun idea, I'd still much rather have a guile-based > > DSL replacement for autotools type things that's standalone (but maybe > > also which can export to shell if need be). > > Yeah, not depending on Guix would have pros (it’d be more widely > applicable), and cons (limited world view). > > Food for thought! > > Ludo’. > > there' s this file guix/buid/emacs-utils.scm
it contains utilities to let Emacs byte-compile elisp files So that' s an Emacs build system and it' s embedded in Guix My initial idea was to do something similar with Guile But then I tought that it could have been a stand alone package Today in the morning I could manage to take a look at this issue I made a script that visits the file system tree of a project and compiles the .scm files Here' s a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaypeR8uw3Q It doesn' t check the availability of dependencies (other guile packages) yet I was not sure how to achieve that I saw that Automake generates snippets of bash scripting that try to run guile with an expression loading the required module and if that fails then the module is not available The same functionality could be reproduced in Guile I also saw the guildhall files that Ludo mentioned So the thing is that the interface towards the user should be like those guildhall files and the interface towards the system should be like the Automake one But, like Automake, it should only check if a Guile module is reachable on the guile load path If it' s not it shouldn't try manouvres: no sat solving, no fetching, nothing. A dependency could be there because you installed it with apt-get or with dnf or because you used configure make on a manually downloaded guile package Or because you installed it with Guix or Nix If it' s there, fine. if it' s not, that' s bad, the package can' t be built What I mean is that this should be a build system, not a package management system This should address the concern that has been raised Does it ? I'll publish this soon, reviews and contributions appreciated ☺
