Writing Guix package definitions.

[kakafarm]

For your general information, I have some Guix package definitions for Ribbit here:

https://codeberg.org/kakafarm/guix-kakafarm-channel/src/branch/add-ribbit/kakafarm/packages/ribbit.scm

I am not very good at it, but it is there.

Current latest commit in the add-ribbit branch is:

https://codeberg.org/kakafarm/guix-kakafarm-channel/commit/c489b8d3b78020a348fa0b5031dabd42762abfe0

[leo-ard]

Thanks for providing guix packages for Ribbit! It's fun to see that the scheme community is getting together.

There is just one issue I see with the package and it's one related to Ribbit. Ribbit still assumes paths when running it. For example, doing ./rsc.exe -t js my-program.scm assumes that an RVM can be found in the current directory at ./host/js/rvm.js. If you run rsc.exe in an arbitrary location that is not the src/ path of the Ribbit repo, it won't work. I will work on a fix for this so that it can be properly installed on a machine (see here for further development #73).

Also, here are some enhancements you can make to the ribbit-javascript-r4rs recipe :

• Add the -f+ compression/lzss/tag -f+ prim-no-arity -e optimal arguments to the recipe. It enables compression and uses another algorithm for encoding the bytecode, which makes it smaller.
• I'm not sure if you want the JavaScript repl to work on the web or with nodejs. If you want to run it on the web you can do -f+ js/web.
• You can enable minification (-m option), although you will need to install the google-closure-compiler which may not be practical (here is the minification script for reference).

It would be nice to add instructions about how to install it in the readme. I'm not super familiar with Guix, do guix users only need a link to your channel to install it, or the procedure is a bit longer ?