Hi Julien, On jeu., 04 mai 2023 at 12:01, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> Have a grep-for-build that is never updated? Build camlboot once and > repackage the binary (making it a bootstrap seed)? Yes, something like that. Well, the packages that camlboot depends on barely change because most of them are “core-updates” packages. However, still. Some packages (autotools) use guile-3.0/pinned instead of guile-3.0. Other gdb/pinned (rust). Etc. Therefore we could use something like /pinned (or -boot or else) for building camlboot once. This allows transparency and being able to rebuild if the worst is necessary. But then, we consider the binary as the bootstrap seed of OCaml world. Maybe, it could be discussed with the OCaml community. Well, I do not know if it is worth but somehow I think that a similar strategy as MES and bootstrapping C could be applied for camlboot and bootstrapping OCaml. Something like gnu/packages/ocaml-commencement.scm that bootstraps the OCaml world and this would depend on packages that are tweaked with a lot of care. Similarly as the MES bootstrap chain. Cheers, simon
