Hello, A thought this morning... one challenge with Guile's 2.1 branch is it takes a lonnnng time to bootstrap. There are good reasons for this, and Andy Wingo has documented them:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile However, I can't help but wonder if we could reuse the initial bootstrapped compiler. What if we had an external package that contained *just* the scheme interpreter used to bootstrap the rest of the system? We might not need to separate the codebase, but have this be a separate make output. If you could package *just* the bootstrapped compiler, if a user doesn't feel like waiting through the whole bootstrap process, they could use the existing bootstrap package, like: ./configure --with-bootstrap=/path/to/guile-bootstrap and maybe we could have a guile-bootstrap package in guix, etc. If you want to do the whole bootstrap yourself in the Guile package, you could do so, but it wouldn't be a requirement, assuming you had that separate package... Thoughts? Useful? Badly informed? - Chris
