Re: GOOPS-less Shepherd

[jbranso]

April 8, 2023 8:54 PM, "Ivan Sokolov" <ivan-p-sokolov@ya.ru> wrote:

> Bodertz <bodertz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I don't have strong feelings either way, and the change won't really
>> affect me too much, but what benefit is there in breaking things? From
>> what I understand from your message, users' configs will stop working in
>> a few months when 1.0.x releases (or with the macro would "kinda work"),
>> which is at least a short-term con, so what's the long-term benefit of
>> this change? Is GOOPS so bad a thing to require?
> 
> If I understand correctly, that will allow Shepherd to run on GNU Mes,
> a Scheme interpreter written for Guix bootstraping.

So by removing the Shepherd's dependency on GNU Mes, the Guix project
benefits by simplying its bootstrapping process?