Re: shortest path to bootstrap gauche?

Shiro Kawai <[email protected]> writes:

> Ah, I see.
>
> Re-tracing the chain of trusted sources may end up either impractical
> (taking too much time) or entering another rabbit hole (getting trusted
> STk).  If we really want one, a possible path is to write a version of a
> subset of Gauche that is enough to run precomp, in portable R7RS.   It is a
> lot of work, but once done, any trusted R7RS implementation can do the job.

thanks for pointing the way out of the rabbit hole.

> However, if this kind of patch-and-regenerate is relatively rare, I could
> create an intermediate release (0.9.15-p2).   It is at least "official";
> you can confirm its integrity by my signature.

I think this would help in my quest to get a new version into
debian/testing.

Best regards
Jens