| 1 | -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*- |
| 2 | |
| 3 | #+TITLE: What's left to do? |
| 4 | #+STARTUP: content hidestars |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
| 7 | Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, |
| 10 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright |
| 11 | notice and this notice are preserved. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or |
| 16 | rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users |
| 17 | would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * user interface |
| 22 | ** add guile-ncurses interface |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * extend <package> |
| 25 | ** add ‘recommends’ field |
| 26 | |
| 27 | For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other. |
| 28 | ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or |
| 29 | none of the recommendations. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’ |
| 32 | |
| 33 | This should specify builder code to be run when building a user |
| 34 | environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would |
| 35 | create a new ‘dir’. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs |
| 38 | |
| 39 | #+BEGIN_SRC scheme |
| 40 | (outputs '("out" "include")) |
| 41 | (propagated-build-inputs |
| 42 | `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1") |
| 43 | ("i2" ,p2)) |
| 44 | => "include") |
| 45 | ("i3" ,p3))) |
| 46 | #+END_SRC |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be |
| 51 | dumped from the FSD: |
| 52 | http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . |
| 53 | We could periodically synchronize with that. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * add a guildhall build system |
| 56 | |
| 57 | The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a |
| 58 | ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall |
| 59 | recipes. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * union |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor |
| 64 | per-package priorities, etc. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS |
| 67 | |
| 68 | Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be |
| 69 | run when that is defined. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | * guix build utils |
| 72 | ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name |
| 73 | |
| 74 | ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild |
| 77 | |
| 78 | See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | * distro |
| 81 | ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’ |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. |
| 84 | In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and |
| 85 | Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | * Installer |
| 88 | ** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started |
| 89 | See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html. |
| 90 | - Force reboot upon installer failure |
| 91 | - Unshare the installer process |
| 92 | - Run the installer process in a separate namespace |
| 93 | ** Partitioning |
| 94 | *** Add RAID support |
| 95 | *** Add more partitioning schemes |
| 96 | The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not |
| 97 | implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp". |
| 98 | *** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait" |
| 99 | Create a new waiting page describing what's being done: |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [ 20% ] |
| 102 | Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ... |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [ 40% ] |
| 105 | Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ... |
| 106 | *** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning |
| 107 | ** Desktop environments |
| 108 | *** Allow for no desktop environments |
| 109 | Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new |
| 110 | page. |
| 111 | *** Add services selection feature |
| 112 | Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed |
| 113 | like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list? |
| 114 | ** Locale and keymap |
| 115 | *** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode) |
| 116 | ** Timezone |
| 117 | *** Regroup everything in one single page |
| 118 | Under the form: |
| 119 | (UTC + 1) Europe/Paris |
| 120 | (UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo |
| 121 | ... |
| 122 | ** Display issue |
| 123 | *** Investigate display issue described here: |
| 124 | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html |