Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.1.1)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Alex Sassmannshausen <address@hidden> skribis:

>> I wonder if it would be useful to have a “standalone” mode, where Hall
>> would rely neither on Autoconf/Automake nor on Guix to do basic things
>> like building code.  It might help newcomers.  You wouldn’t want to
>> reimplement everything though, so I don’t know if this is a viable
>> approach.  Thoughts?
>
> Interesting idea.  When you say building code, do you mean literally
> compiling a project within the project folder & perhaps generating a
> wrapper script that might update GUILE_LOAD_{COMPILED_}PATH à la
> pre-inst-env, or do you mean some form of installer?

I’m thinking of a “hall build” command that would build Scheme files and
produce a wrapper script, and optionally “hall install” as well.

It’s interesting only if it can be done without reimplementing too much
of the Autoconf/Automake or Guix logic, I suppose.

Thanks,
Ludo’.