LisPi on Nostr: nprofile1q…xlcmg > If it's that it's not bootstrappable without at least some ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqy3qqz406ww46wqwu74gxw5dzv9673ptyykt4ph2rphsvunck78yq6xlcmg (nprofile…lcmg) > If it's that it's not bootstrappable without at least some working OCaml compiler — then I'm not sure if any compiler truly is.
GCC is down to a sub-kilobyte binary seed, and consequently so is anything that only requires a C program at some point or another (or osme other language directly supported by GCC).
(This is also part of what IcedTea was about. A blob is not Free.)
It's not just about the Trusting Trust test for me though, it's just a matter of sane practice & Freedom. The same reason that SBCL's title as a "sanely bootstrappable Common Lisp" matters.
There should always be a fully from-source approach to generating the entire toolkit, and if it ever gets invalidated, efforts should be made to create a substitute post-haste.
GCC is down to a sub-kilobyte binary seed, and consequently so is anything that only requires a C program at some point or another (or osme other language directly supported by GCC).
(This is also part of what IcedTea was about. A blob is not Free.)
It's not just about the Trusting Trust test for me though, it's just a matter of sane practice & Freedom. The same reason that SBCL's title as a "sanely bootstrappable Common Lisp" matters.
There should always be a fully from-source approach to generating the entire toolkit, and if it ever gets invalidated, efforts should be made to create a substitute post-haste.