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* AUTHORS: Mention Nyacc and GuixSD. * NEWS: Update. * README: Update. * doc/ANNOUNCE-0.5 New file. * HACKING: Add pointers, update TODO/DONE.
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-*- org -*-
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Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
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Mes aims to create full source bootstrapping for GuixSD: an entirely
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source-based bootstrap path. The target is to [have GuixSD] boostrap
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from a minimal, easily inspectable binary --that should be readable as
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source-- into something close to R6RS Scheme.
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It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting [close to Guile-]
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Scheme interpreter prototype in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in
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[Guile] Scheme.
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The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a
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library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably [[https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm][Dominique Boucher's LALR]],
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[[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html][Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case]] with R7RS ellipsis, [[http://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/][Matt Wette's Nyacc]]
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and [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html][Guile's PEG]] --and test suite just barely enough to support a
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simple REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler (mescc.mes) that can
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produce the second initial ELF binary from binary from mes.c, in only
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about 2h30'.
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Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
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McCarthy page 13, [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/][GNU Guix's]] source/binary packaging transparency and
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[[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][Jeremiah Orians's stage0]] bootstrap project.
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Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
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General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
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* Get it
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git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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* Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
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./configure
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make all
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make check
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* REPL it
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scripts/repl.mes
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* Mescc compiler
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scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c > a.out
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