On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 7:48 PM Luca Fascione <l.fasci...@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. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen