Re: Welcoming Olivier as new committer

Olivier Dion writes:

> On Tue, 03 Mar 2026, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Olivier Dion <[email protected]> skribis:
>>
>>> Having a working version of Guile 3 on Windows is very nice.  But, it
>>> would be even nicer if bug fixes could be ported to Windows as well in
>>> the future (not just some Z version in a blue moon).
>>>
>>> Which mean, I would like to see if we can try to keep the Windows build
>>> working between versions, once we get it worked, says in 3.0.12.
>>
>> Perhaps =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=9D could add a check in =E2=80=98.guix/manifes=
t.scm=E2=80=99 that would (1)
>> cross-build Guile to MinGW (it=E2=80=99s already there), and (2) attempt=
 to run
>> the binaries with Wine (that=E2=80=99s the missing part)?
>
> That would certainly be a great way of having a minimal regression
> testing before release!

Yes!  And it's exactly why i was so puzzled that the new MingW
cross-build (https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/pulls/22) merged without
any such a test, and which is why I submitted
https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/pulls/90, which is, as far as I know,
the first recipe to actually test that pull request.  I'm happy with the
effort put in and the progress made, just not so thrilled by the lack of
a test or a recipe to reproduce...

And then I got a "I personally don't use Guix and I'm not very
interested in trying it out.." comment on that.

Greetings,
Janneke

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