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Re: Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs
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Nicolas Graves |
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Re: Guidelines for bootstrapping with lots of inputs |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:35:29 +0100 |
On 2024-02-20 15:11, Adam Faiz wrote:
>> WDYT? Are there guidelines somewhere about how to do proper bootstrapping in
>> these cases where hundreds of packages are involved?
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> Not really, but your idea to rewrite inputs for the bootstrapping process
> does simplify things a lot.
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> How is typescript bootstrapped? Even though you'll have to repeat the trial
> and error process again, I think using sucrase is easier for bootstrapping
> typescript:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-02/msg00122.html
Timothy claimed that building typescript with esbuild has been done (by
singpolyma) in guixrus and it indeed seems it is.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-02/msg00123.html
https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/tree/master/item/guixrus/packages/javascript/typescript.scm
What I've done currently is to bootstrap tape (but not all packages
using tape as a native-input in the process). The idea is to build tap
and typescript from there.
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Best regards,
Nicolas Graves