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guile bundles (a compiled version of) UnicodeData.txt and binaries

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 54111 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54111: guile bundles (a compiled version of) UnicodeData.txt and binaries
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:52:47 +0100

Hi,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> Looking at <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=2f9bc7fe61d39658a24a15526b7b88bbd184961b>,
> I noticed that Guile bundles a binary variant of UnicodeData.txt in
> srfi-14.i.c.  Seems like it should be compiled with
> the 'unidate_to_charset.pl' script instead (assuming that there are no
> bootstrapping concerns).

It would add a dependency on Perl, which is not great (I’m not sure
whether it complicates bootstrapping since Perl is already present early
on, but it’s safer to avoid it.)

We could rewrite ‘unidata_to_charset.pl’ in Scheme, but then Guile would
still need to provide a pre-compiled version of srfi-14.i.c for
bootstrapping purposes.  Or we could rewrite it in Awk, since Guile
already depends on Awk anyway.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

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