Publishing an Official Statement on Self-Hosted Compilers

[Alex Griffin]

Hello Guixlings,

One thing I think the Guix project should do is work with the
reproducible builds folks to publish a document explaining the issues
involved with self-hosted compilers. It should encourage language
communities to continuously maintain some way to build their language
starting from hand-written C source code (or another language which can
itself be bootstrapped from C). It could also mention that some members
of our community are exploring ways to bootstrap gcc.

What do you think? It might be a total flop, but it looks like something
we should try anyway! At the moment I do not see other communities
talking about this. Guix is deeply concerned about these issues, but
ultimately we cannot fix everything alone. If we can convince the
Rust/OCaml/Haskell folks that this is important, we may be able to
attract a much larger group of people to bear on the problem.

Thanks for your thoughts,
-- 
Alex Griffin