Re: [RFC] Moving to Guile 2.2 and away from GUB

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, dem 27.11.2021 um 14:15 +0100 schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
> Jean Abou Samra writes:
> 
> > Le 27/11/2021 à 12:43, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit :
> > > But yeah, some 5 years ago
> > > 
> > > I already proposed using GNU Guix, making use of its excellent cross
> > > build system and creation of universal binaries.
> > 
> > At this point, it's a bit too late to discuss other solutions
> > in my opinion. Jonas obviously invested a ton of work in
> > this
> 
> Ah, my bad.  Then that's great or too bad, depending on your viewpoint.
> After GUB (already when working on GUB, ftm) my hope was to avoid
> duplicating efforts of maintaining cross build systems.

I wholeheartedly agree, which is why we're not maintaining the cross
build tool installation ourselves but just install the packages from
Ubuntu. Because the advantage of only cross-compiling for mingw is that
it's very common, with available support in quite some distributions.

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