Re: Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Joshua Branson <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> The story of ‘build-expression->derivation’ is that of an unfinished
>> transition to G-expressions.  :-)
>>
>> There’s a branch called ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ that aims to complete
>> that transition, but I haven’t yet gotten around to actually finishing
>> the work.  This is one of the things I want us to complete for 1.0
>> though, so sooner rather than later.
>
> May I ask why the transition?  Just curious.

G-expressions address shortcomings of plain s-expressions when used to
write build expressions as in Guix and for code generation in general
(“code staging”); see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01580582/en

Ludo’.