Re: On a Guile-based Build-Tool complimenting Guix

[Divya Ranjan]

Thanks for sharing these, Janeke!

On 19 December 2024 21:17:39 GMT, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:

Divya Ranjan writes:

Hello,

The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
have a purely Guile-based build tool? After all, our goal is to make
deployment, and building both more declarative and away from the
all-too-familiar “dependency hell”.

[..]

I was indicated by others that such an idea has previously been
conceievd among Guix developers themselves, namely as a GSoC
proposal[0]. I couldn’t find if that has progressed towards anything,
nor could find anything in the mailing list.

From my notes I have

* make in Guile: potato-make, bespoke
** https://github.com/spk121/potato-make
** https://codeberg.org/lechner/bespoke

but there's probably more.  And then there's also the Guix Workflow
Language.

Greetings,
Janneke

Divya Ranjan, Mathematics, Philosophy and Libre Software