Re: guile or scheme used to implement make or meson

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 9/12/23 15:56, Olivier Dion wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> wrote:
> > Is using Guile, or a similar Scheme implementation, to re-implement
> > make or meson realistic?
> By re-implementing do you mean re-writing Make with Guile?  That ought
> to be realistic, but I really do not see the point of it.
>
> What is more realistic and useful is to make a build system in Guile
> where the DSL that replaces Makefiles is Scheme.

I think this already exist in GNU make. Recent versions of it can be 
extended in GNU guile:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Function.html


BTW, my pet open source project (which uses GNU make without the guile 
extension) is the RefPerSys open source inference engine project (mostly 
coded in C++, with the ambition to generate C++ code or machine code 
thru GNU lightning), see https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ (and 
amateurish website http://refpersys.org/ ....). Contributors are welcome.

Regards from near Paris in France.


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