Re: [Proposal] The Formal Methods in GNU Guix Working Group

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Svante Signell writes:

> On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 15:16 +0100, zimoun wrote:
>> Dear,
>> 
>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 13:03, Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > We also have a scheme bootstrappable from nothing written in C
>> > https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2
>> > https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed
>> 
>> The term "nothing" is mitigated; i.e. "nothing" means: a booted system
>> running a (linux) kernel. Right?
>
> I do also suspect that mes* is only for Linux so far. Any plans for Hurd?

Your suspicion is somewhat correct.  GNU Mes v0.22 added initial support
for the Hurd, and introduced a FreeBSD scaffold.  Support for the Hurd
has always been the plan, see the Guix ROADMAP or the manual
(https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/operating_002dsystem-Reference.html#FOOT23).

Greetings,
janneke

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