Hi! Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> skribis:
> Attached the notes from the "Bootstrap what's next" session yesterday. Thanks for sharing! > - Making the guix build system code less dependent on Guile and more > dependent on MES Not necessarily more dependent on Mes :-), but rather portable between the two. On this topic, one action item we identified was to try and see what it would take to run (guix build gnu-build-system) and the modules it depends on on Mes. If we can run that on Mes during early bootstrap (before Guile is built), then that’s a step towards removing the big ‘%bootstrap-guile’ binary seed. These modules require some Guilish module support as well as a bunch of (ice-9 *) and (srfi *) modules. Perhaps with some tricks such as autoloads, we can reduce the number of modules actually needed. Another option is to write a simplified but compatible subset of (guix build gnu-build-system) specifically for use during early bootstrap. At any rate, the first step is to try to feed that code to Mes and see what happens. :-) If you’ve always wanted to join the bootstrapping movement, now’s your opportunity! Ludo’.
