Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen transcribed 759 bytes:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >>> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on
> >>> ‘core-updates’.  Bad news: it depends on Python.
> >>
> >> I had to check the date.  This is for real?
> >
> > It’s not a June 1st prank, I swear!
> 
> Oh, great... not.
> 
> >> I’ll take a look at python-on-guile and see if we can run the scripts
> >> with it.
> >
> > That’d be sweet!
> 
> Yes! ... Although...how are we -- in the far future -- going to replace
> Guile with Mes for the Guix bootstrap?  Could it be that the glibc
> developers haven't seen my talk? :-/

Maintain a variant of glibc or your own libc?
It's not that far off for an Operating System, and nothing which is impossible.
 
> janneke
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