icg build instructions [was: Re: igc: trying to chase a crash]

[Andrea Corallo]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Dear Andrea, Gerd, ...
>>> * Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> [2024-11-27; 03:52 -05]:
>>>> Sure if it's of interest: my idea of few things that helped a lot native
>>>> comp in gaining traction at time:
>>>>
>>>> - publishing simple blog posts summarizing and explaining the progresses
>>>>   of the branch [1]
>>>
>>> Data Point: That got me interested.
>>> There were progress updates, so I
>>> visited the age rather often.
>>>
>>>> - native-comp being a feature branch, this clarified that the goal was
>>>>   merging to master (IOW something which was probably likely to happen)
>>>>   and that the branch was trackable by users.  That's why I suggested
>>>>   more than once this solution in the past.
>>>
>>> That and the instructions on how to use
>>> it motivated me to try out.
>>>
>>> In case of igc detailed build
>>> instructions would be needed (for me at least).
>>
>> Yeah that's a great point!  For me building igc was not trivial.  MPS
>> doesn't come with distros and the experience of compiling it from source
>> wasn't great, the instructions in the codebase were conflicting plus I
>> had to manually patch the codebase as OOB was not compiling.  Finally
>> Emacs has to find it during compilation, otherwise I think it will
>> silently revert to the standard GC even if configured for it.
>>
>> Maybe some of this is fixed now I'm not sure, but these are all hard
>> barriers for users, clear and detailed instructions would be much needed
>> for a more spread use of it.
>>
>>   Andrea
>
> Then, why not do it? Where would people expect to find that info? In a
> README-IGC or something in the top-level dir?

A README-IGC in the top-level dir SGTM (as a temporary solution before
the merge at least).  I'm wondering if we could have some way to
propagate this information also outside emacs.git as well 🤷

  Andrea