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[PATCH] gnu: Add dart

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Message #28 received at 74078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>,
 GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers <at> gnu.org>,
 zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>,
 Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>,
 74078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add dart
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:03:41 +0900

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> writes:

> On 10 November 2024 17:47:59 UTC, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:
>>We could keep the sky from falling by documenting that once a known bootstrap path exists, it *must* be used.
>
> As well as mandating the oldest (which is almost certainly the
> smallest) known binary seed.  And we must count it as such.
>
> Granted, it'll ruin our ‘binary seed reduced by N MiB!’ blog posts in
> exchange for a larger/more modern package collection.

I'm pretty sure we already have some binary bootstrapped compilers.
Your suggestions toward documenting a policy make a lot of sense to me;
if you have the bandwidth, I'd like to see it drafted, perhaps as an RFC?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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