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Re: [ANN] Guile Hall 0.3.0 released
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Alex Sassmannshausen |
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Re: [ANN] Guile Hall 0.3.0 released |
Date: |
Sun, 17 May 2020 22:55:33 +0200 |
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Hi Arne,
Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> writes:
> Catonano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Overall, I'd say this:
>>
>> […]
>>
>> There is level 0 of Guile packaging: that's NO packaging. You keep your
>> files scattered around and they will be autocompiled
>> In the future, there could be a level 2. That is: no m4 anymore !! As fas
>> as I undertsand the Autoconf based machinery relies on bash to execute
>> tests (is such library available ? Is Guile version >= 2.7 ?)
>
> Autoconf is intended to be bootstrappable with minimal dependencies.
> It needs some shell. At some point gash might be a suitable option.
Right. This is what autotools brings to the table right? A super
minimalist, dependable and portable installation process.
Having a fully Guile bootstrap using tools such as gash would be
amazing. It shouldn't lose us meaningful portability I suppose, because
these tools would work anywhere where Guile works, and we're talking
about distributing Guile libraries & applications in the first place!
> m4 is just a very simple templating language. Should not be too hard
> to implement it in Guile.
Again, this has come up in the past. I love the idea of having a Guile
way to do the work that m4, autoreconf and automake do — I think any
piecemeal or module work towards this would super valuable.
I hope for now, in the absence of those things existing, having Hall
provide a kludgy bridge between autotools and Guile might be the best of
both worlds…
Cheers,
Alex
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