Re: Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs

2024-02-20 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
On 2024-02-20 15:11, Adam Faiz wrote: >> WDYT? Are there guidelines somewhere about how to do proper bootstrapping in >> these cases where hundreds of packages are involved? > > Not really, but your idea to rewrite inputs for the bootstrapping process > does simplify things a lot. > > How is typ

Re: Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs

2024-02-20 Thread Adam Faiz
>How is typescript bootstrapped? Even though you'll have to repeat the trial >and error process again, I think using sucrase is easier for bootstrapping >typescript: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-02/msg00122.html Nevermind, it's already bootstrapped with esbuild in guixrus.

Re: Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs

2024-02-20 Thread Adam Faiz
> WDYT? Are there guidelines somewhere about how to do proper bootstrapping in > these cases where hundreds of packages are involved? Not really, but your idea to rewrite inputs for the bootstrapping process does simplify things a lot. How is typescript bootstrapped? Even though you'll have to

Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs

2024-02-20 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Guix! I've just managed to bootstrap the node-tape package using some of the helpers I introduced in 68941 (WIP). I want to use and reproduce the method I applied for phpunit in 67092, but it's a long method and I haven't had any input on it before now, so I'd like to at least validate the m