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Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix |
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Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:09:42 +0100 |
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Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
> But my feeling is that the community
> is heavily invested in autotools and Guix as /the/ build system (and
> very happily so!) and i don't have the evangelising chops/time :)
I don’t think anyone really like to use autotools. When working with
just Guile I find autotools to be an annoying complication. I don’t
*want* to use autotools and I only use a tiny portion of what it
provides; I use it in recognition of the fact that it works on all
systems I care about.
I we had a simple system that lets people override install locations and
provides good defaults I’d throw out autotools in a heartbeat.
Guix on the other hand … is irreplaceable to me. Not because of how it
installs Guile packages (it doesn’t do anything special), but because I
don’t need to worry about how any other libraries I might need are
provided or linked. Guix makes all the problems with non-Guile stuff
disappear, across all supported systems.
--
Ricardo
- Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix, Christine Lemmer-Webber, 2022/02/05
- Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2022/02/05
- Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix, Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz, 2022/02/05
- Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
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