Christopher Allan Webber <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> skribis: >> >>> For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make, >>> is here: >>> >>> http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf >> >> It would be interesting to see what a Maak translated to Guile + Guix >> would look like. >> >> The ‘makeLibrary’, ‘compileC’, and other functions used as illustrations >> in the paper would be quite easy to write using our current APIs. >> >> Ludo’. > > Reading this... it's interesting. It looks like Nix and Maak don't > share code, but do share ideas and contributors (and a founder)?
The Nix and Maak languages are basically the same, and ISTR Eelco’s thesis mentions something Maak-like built on top of Nix. > So, assuming we had that theoretical guix-make, would it be usable > without running Guix as a full package manager, or without running the > daemon necessarily? No, I was just thinking of something built using Guix as it currently exists. Ludo’.
