On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 09:06:40AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > I agree. It is actually in line with Eelco Dolstra's thinking more > than 10 years ago (he created 'Maak'), though he did not use Guile. > > I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use > make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the > baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile > generation tools that are automake and cmake. I guess it should be > somewhere in between :). Yes a configurable Guile solution would be > excellent.
For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make, is here: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf --
