To keep others in the loop, Olivier and I had a discussion off-the-list on such
a build tool.
Soon we'd be creating a rudimentary repository and experimenting the tool with
different packages.
Hopefully we can come up with some interesting outcomes that can be used
upstream for Guix.
Regards.
Hi Olivier,
Olivier Dion writes:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Olivier Dion skribis:
>>
>>> For what it is worth, I have been using my own build system purely in
>>> Guile for a few years now. I use it in my main project libpatch
>>> (https://git.sr.ht/~old/lib
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 19 2024, Divya Ranjan wrote:
> why doesn’t Guix [...] have a purely Guile-based build tool?
A year ago, I rewrote Guix's Makefile recipes in GNU Guile. They look
like the example below. Would the maintainers accept such a patch?
It would be a small step for a human but a big s
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Olivier Dion skribis:
>
>> For what it is worth, I have been using my own build system purely in
>> Guile for a few years now. I use it in my main project libpatch
>> (https://git.sr.ht/~old/libpatch/tree). It is compatible with the
>> gn
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Divya Ranjan wrote:
> Hello Oliver,
>
> Thanks for the elaborate response and apologies for a delayed one from
> me, the holidays have been occupied.
Sorry for my very late reply. Last months were very busy for me. I
appology in advance for this very long answer.
> The bui
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 01:48:02AM +, Divya Ranjan wrote:
[...]
> Sure, it may be worth creating a clean system. But I do note that both
> meson and cmake chose to handle the build through make or ninja. There
> must be a reason for that :)
Sorry fo
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 01:48:02AM +, Divya Ranjan wrote:
[...]
> Sure, it may be worth creating a clean system. But I do note that both
> meson and cmake chose to handle the build through make or ninja. There
> must be a reason for that :)
Sorry fo
Hello Divya, apologies for the late response.
On 12/28/24 02:55, Divya Ranjan wrote:
While I haven't looked Nicholas' patches carefully, how do you think we
could use Guix's build-system functionality as it stands now for a
proper build system?
Well. I see it the other way around.
Guix is th
Am 04.01.25 um 11:06 schrieb Skyler Ferris via Development of GNU Guix
and the GNU System distribution.:
A Guix-aware build system could improve upon the traditional timestamp-based
rebuilding heuristic by using a content address heursitic
This is what Scons and waf do since their very beginni
Hi all! I just want to mention some theoretical benefits that could arise from
using a Guix-aware build-system.
A Guix-aware build system could improve upon the traditional timestamp-based
rebuilding heuristic by using a content address heursitic. This benefits
developers using the Guix-aware b
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 01:48:02AM +, Divya Ranjan wrote:
>Hello Pjotr, glad to see that you'd be still interested in such a
>project.
>> Where it comes to other targets, such as Debian distros and all, it
>is probably going to be too painful to handle to resolve all their
>
Hello!
For what its worth, I mentioned it only in the capacity of the opportunity to
share work with meson.
So in answer, I meant a guile interface to meson, with the backend of meson
remaining the same
I develop a lot with the gnome ecosystem and the meson project makes
accommodations for that
Hello,
Olivier Dion skribis:
> For what it is worth, I have been using my own build system purely in
> Guile for a few years now. I use it in my main project libpatch
> (https://git.sr.ht/~old/libpatch/tree). It is compatible with the
> gnu-build-system (configure && make && make check && make
Hello Sergio,
> While I don’t have a specific starting point in mind, I believe that an
> essential feature such a tool, is the ability of continuing builds from
> successful phases.
While I haven't looked Nicholas' patches carefully, how do you think we could
use Guix's build-system functiona
Thanks for sharing these, Janeke!
On 19 December 2024 21:17:39 GMT, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>Divya Ranjan writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>> The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
>> meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
>> powerful tools within it (
Hello Fi,
Would you prefer a guile interface to meson, or a meson replacement in Guile?
Regards,
On 27 December 2024 00:41:33 GMT, Fi wrote:
>I was thinking this the other day!, was wondering about how useful a guile
>interface to meson would be.
>
>On 19. 12. 24 22:12, Divya Ranjan wrote:
>>
Hello Pjotr, glad to see that you'd be still interested in such a project.
> Where it comes to other targets, such as Debian distros and all, it is
> probably going to be too painful to handle to resolve all their demands.
Can you elaborate on what exactly would be hard to figure out for a Debia
Hello Attila,
> i'm not sure whether that is part of your goals. maybe you just want to
> provide an alternative build system, and merely inspire upstream authors to
> migrate to it? (as opposed to providing a compatible guile-based build script
> in parallel to upstream's makefiles)
Indeed th
Hello Oliver,
Thanks for the elaborate response and apologies for a delayed one from me, the
holidays have been occupied.
The build system you present looks really interesting. But can you list down
exactly how it works and how a developer can use it to build something in Guile
using Guix?
Al
I was thinking this the other day!, was wondering about how useful a guile
interface to meson would be.
On 19. 12. 24 22:12, Divya Ranjan wrote:
> Hello Guix,
>
> The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools, meson,
> maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
Hi,
For what it is worth, I have been using my own build system purely in
Guile for a few years now. I use it in my main project libpatch
(https://git.sr.ht/~old/libpatch/tree). It is compatible with the
gnu-build-system (configure && make && make check && make install), but
it does not have to
This is pretty cool Olivier!
My thought to build systems is that autotools and cmake are really
ugly and I, for sure, have that itch to scratch. I have proposed GSoC
projects in that direction.
For a Guix target we can have a much lighter system that, similar to
cmake, could generate ninja or mak
> The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
> meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
> powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
> have a purely Guile-based build tool? After all, our goal is to make
> deployment, and buildi
On 2024-12-19 22:17, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Divya Ranjan writes:
Hello,
The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
have a purely Guil
Divya Ranjan writes:
Hello,
> The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
> meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
> powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
> have a purely Guile-based build tool? After all, our goal is to
Hello Divya!
I would like to show interest in having a Guile based build-tool. If the
community decides this is something worth putting effort into, I would
like to participate.
While I don’t have a specific starting point in mind, I believe that an
essential feature such a tool, is the ability
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