Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] gnu: chez-scheme: Explicitly package bootstrap bootfiles.

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:54:55 +0100

Am Sonntag, dem 13.02.2022 um 16:51 -0500 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> This might seem a bit silly in isolation, but it makes the structure
> of the upstream Chez Scheme package the same as for the Racket
> variant, it sets things up for (one day, hopefully) actually being
> able to bootstrap the upstream Chez Scheme bootfiles, and it may be
> useful for cross-compilation and adding support for architectures
> without pre-built bootfiles from upstream.
> 
> * gnu/packages/chez-and-racket-bootstrap.scm
> (chez-scheme-bootstrap-bootfiles): New variable.
> (chez-scheme)[native-inputs]: Add it.
> [arguments]: Add new phase 'unpack-bootfiles'.
> [version, source, home-page]: Derive from 'chez-scheme-bootstrap-
> bootfiles'.
> ---
While having chez-scheme-bootstrap-bootfiles (silly name) does make
some kind of sense, making chez-scheme inherit from it does not.  Given
that we don't have a chez-scheme bootstrap tower at hand, you should
probably make (chez-scheme-bootstrap) a procedure which takes chez-
scheme's origin as argument and returns the full package.

Also, while technically a violation of the DRY principle, you are
allowed to type out the homepage multiple times.