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Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:48:18 +0200 |
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address@hidden writes:
>> Yes! ... Although...how are we -- in the far future -- going to replace
>> Guile with Mes for the Guix bootstrap? Could it be that the glibc
>> developers haven't seen my talk? :-/
>
> Maintain a variant of glibc or your own libc?
> It's not that far off for an Operating System, and nothing which is
> impossible.
Since we’re all part of the GNU project our aim should be to make this
work without having to fork the C library.
Maintaining a variant of the C library is not a realistic option,
because it’s enough work to maintain each of the other GNU packages that
are involved in this endeavor.
--
Ricardo