Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello Olivier & Sergio,
> Olivier Dion <[email protected]> skribis: > >> I am very happy to announce the release of the pre-alpha of BLUE, a >> build-system entirely crafted in Guile [0], that I have been working on >> with my friend Sergio since last year. > > Congrats! 🎉 +1 >> Some of you might have heard echoes of this project on IRC or during the >> Guix days. If you have not already, and if you are interested, you can >> go watch Sergio's presentation of BLUE at FOSDEM 2026 [1]. > > We all love Autoconf/Automake/Libtool, but who knows, maybe some of us > will be willing to give BLUE a try despite it lacking the appeal of > shell + M4. Hehe. Well, TBH, as a developer I'm pretty happy with Autotools and decided to commit on it some 10y ago (i.e, wanted to use it for all my live projects -- even Mes has a `wip-auto' branch!). As a user, especially building ancient softwares, Autotools are a Nightmare. Yes, that's with a capital N. Note that I don't talk about other build systems, though. > (Seriously though: many of us are already sold, good job!) The BLUE experience is truely amazing. Kudos to Olivier and Sergio! No more ls -ltrF $(find . -name config.log) to figure out which config.log to look at, and then searching for a possible error. The failed program was, etc. No more injecting `set -x' and `set +x' in configure, hoping to get some sensible output. You just get a very readable backtrace. And lovely as BASH and M4 are, BLUE uses an actual programming language. It's almost incomparable. BLUE isn't there just yet, at least not for Dezyne's (https://dezyne.org) interesting build system, but bugs have been filed and will be addressed. > Good luck with the upcoming milestones! Make sure to add a package in > Guix too! :-) Seconded. We need all BLUE goodies in Guix, even if you know they'll change within a month! Greetings, Janneke -- who's been hacking BLUE for at least two straight days now -- Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> | GNU LilyPond https://LilyPond.org Freelance IT https://www.JoyOfSource.com | Avatar® https://AvatarAcademy.com
