Re: [Chicken-users] Eggology

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> felix winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:

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 >> Syntax-case is low-level, srfi-42 and miscmacros are control
 >> structures... This is part of what lisp is to me; layers upon layers
 >> of code.

 > Right, this is also why all Lisp systems end up in large entangled
 > blobs that no one can build reproducibly, and which can not be
 > cross/target compiled (ASDF my foot, I say!), or even compiled from
 > sources.

        Well, Gentoo packaging system instantly and reproducibly builds
        the whole GNU/Linux system -- more than 500 packages
        (typically), with each package depending on up to tens of other
        ones, automatically resolving all the dependencies and
        downloading the source tar-balls from a nearby mirror as
        necessary.  I'm therefore asking, is the problem in the number
        of dependencies per se, or just with the software handling them?

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