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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Mes Road Map
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Copyright © 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2022,2023 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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The goals of the GNU Mes project are two-fold:
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- to bootstrap the GNU System purely from source, without using any binary
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seeds.
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- to aid the Reproducible-Builds.org effort; demonstrate the impact and
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importance of GNU and Software Freedom.
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Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal. Below
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is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of GNU Mes.
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You're welcome to discuss this road map on bug-mes@gnu.org or #bootstrappable
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on Libera Chat!
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* TODO
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** release 0.x, unsorted
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- Full Guile module support.
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- Run Gash and Gash-Utils on Mes.
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- Remove Guile as a dependency for the Guix Full Source Bootstrap.
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- Integrate Full Source bootstrap for ARM on GNU Guix;
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see branch wip-aarch64-bootstrap.
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- Integrate Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap for ARM on GNU Guix;
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see branch wip-arm-bootstrap.
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- Introduce the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to NixOS (Debian,
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Arch, Gentoo, ...?).
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- Full Guile-compatible module support; see branch wip-module.
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- RISC-V support: Mes C Library and MesCC.
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- AArch64 support: Mes C Library and MesCC.
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- Simplify eval-apply and other core functionality + See https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2 fork/rewrite of mes.
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- Support native x86_64 bootstrap.
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- Simplify MesCC ``MesCC should optimize ease of convincing us of its
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correctness''.
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- Switch to Autotools for development build (bootstrap builds use
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kaem.run and bootstrap.sh); see branch wip-auto.
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** after release 1.0
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- Build Guix packages using Mes: run or simplify (guix build utils),
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(guix build gnu-build-system).
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- Build Guix packages without guix-daemon. See Ludovic's initrd build
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work.
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- Bootstrap support for the Hurd. Most needed now are fork and exec.
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- Replace the initial gcc-2.95.3 with gcc-4.6.4.
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- FreeBSD, *BSD?
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- Tiny CC:
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+ remove or upstream patches from tcc-boot, + build 0.9.27 directly instead of via 0.9.26; see tinycc branch
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wip-bootstrappable@0.9.27
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- Skip Tiny CC: Build gcc using MesCC.
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- Better garbage collector.
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- mes/mescc: proper docstrings, api reference documentation.
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- mes/mescc: bootstrap a minimal Guile?
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+ libguile/{eval,init,list,strings,values,..}. + ice-9/eval.scm
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- syntax-case bootstrap problem
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+ resolve portable syntax-case bootstrap, or + get full source syntax-case up (Andre van Tonder?)
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https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-72/srfi-72.html, or
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+ ... drop it?
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* DONE
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- 0.24: Full Source Bootstrap: + integrate into GNU Guix; see branch wip-full-source-bootstrap.
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- 0.23 Full Source Bootstrap:
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+ compile mes.c using M2-Planet; see branch wip-m2,
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- GNU Mes now supports building Tiny CC on ARM.
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- Merge the Scheme-only bootstrap which uses Gash and Gash Core
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Utilities to remove from bootstrap-binary seed : Awk, Bash, Core
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Utilities, Grep, Gzip, Sed, Tar.
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- 0.22 GNU Mes now builds reproducibly cross-platform, runs on the
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Hurd and has better support for other distributions and kernels.
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- 0.21 GNU Mes now supports a Scheme-only bootstrap and is packaged in
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Debian GNU/Linux.
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- 0.20 GNU Mes brings the Reduced Binary Source bootstrap to Guix.
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- 0.19 GNU Mes now compiles TinyCC in ~8min and supports building Bash and
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GNU Tar.
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- 0.18 GNU Mes now supports GuixSD bootstrap (x86,x86_64) and has native
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x86_64 support.
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- 0.17.1 GNU Mes now allows removing glibc, binutils and gcc from the GuixSD
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bootstrap.
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- 0.17 GNU Mes is now an official GNU project and bootstraps gcc-4.7.4.
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- 0.16.1 Mes now has info docs and installs ootb on Debian buster/testing.
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- 0.16 Mes Lib C now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.1.0.
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- 0.15: MesCC now has a libc+gnu that supports compiling binutils-2.14,
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gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5.
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- 0.14: Mes+MesCC now compiles a slightly patched self-hosting tcc.
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- 0.13: Mes+MesCC now compiles a modified, functional tcc.c (~25,000LOC) in
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1h30'.
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- 0.12: Mes+MesCC now compiles mes.c (~3000LOC) in ~4min.
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- 0.11: MesCC now compiles a mes-tcc that passes 26/69 of mescc's C tests.
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- 0.10: Mescc now compiles a mes-tcc that compiles a trivial C to a running
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a.out.
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- 0.9: Mescc now writes M1 macro assembly files and compiles tcc.
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- 0.8: Mescc now writes object files in stage0's labeled hex2 format.
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- 0.7: Mescc supports -E, -c, -o options, include more complete set of
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header files, enough to work on compiling tinycc's tcc.c albeit a somewhat
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modified version.
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- 0.6: Work with unmodified, unbundled Nyacc; compile 33/55 tinycc's
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tests/test2 suite.
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- 0.5: Mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter and C compiler: mes.c and
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mescc, Support call-with-current-continuation, refactor catch/throw
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- 0.4: Support Nyacc, Gcc-compiled Mes compiles minimal main.c using nyacc
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- 0.3: Garbage collector
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- 0.2: Support psyntax
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- 0.1: Mes eval/apply feature complete; support syntax-rules, compile main.c
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using LALR, dump ELF
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