Re: [GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Efraim Flashner skribis: > I feel pretty confident about the lexing and parsing; not too sure what > would go into implementing the run-time support. > > To summarize a bit, there are two mostly overlapping parts here, one more > busybox-esque where we can drop bootstrap binaries, and a second wi

Re: [GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-23 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 03:05:08PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:27:25 +0100 > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > > >> Hi Efraim, > >> > >> Thanks for your proposal! > >> > >> This project can be pretty fun, I think, and quite rew

Re: [GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:27:25 +0100 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Hi Efraim, >> >> Thanks for your proposal! >> >> This project can be pretty fun, I think, and quite rewarding if it >> indeed allows us to get rid of a bunch of bootstrap binaries. >> >>

Re: [GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:27:25 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > Thanks for your proposal! > > This project can be pretty fun, I think, and quite rewarding if it > indeed allows us to get rid of a bunch of bootstrap binaries. > > As I see it, the project covers mostly t

Re: [GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Efraim, Thanks for your proposal! This project can be pretty fun, I think, and quite rewarding if it indeed allows us to get rid of a bunch of bootstrap binaries. As I see it, the project covers mostly two areas: 1. Lexing & parsing. This compiler front-end will need a real parser fo

[GSoC] Bourne-shell compiler front-end for Guile

2016-03-21 Thread Efraim Flashner
I'm a student still this year and Guix is the only project I'm considering. If there's anything I can do/change to make it more clear or thorough I'd love to have some feedback. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality canno