Re: Guile 3.0

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 7:48 PM Luca Fascione <l.fascione@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to bring up an option that I'd expect fair few of you will
> _really_ not like.
> I'm doing this not because I necessarily believe it to be a
> particularly good way forward,
> rather because I feel it is sometimes useful to articulate in words why an
> "obviously awful idea" is, in fact, awful. Or maybe it isn't

I'm missing the context for this proposal. However, here is my $0.02:

Shipping dependencies ("vendoring") can be very useful, because it
reduces the combinatorial space of version combinations that you have
to support. Ghostscript does this with a lot of its dependencies (for
example, libpng, IIRC)

Vendoring Guile seems totally impractical. The Guile compilation does
some sort of bootstrapping, which makes building it from scratch
glacially slow (like: O(1 hour)), so it would be impossible for day to
day development work.

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