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3 | #+TITLE: What's left to do? |
4 | #+STARTUP: content hidestars | |
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d6af2518 | 6 | Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
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8 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
9 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
10 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
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12 | * Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server |
13 | ||
14 | Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests. | |
15 | Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also | |
16 | reply to requests for .narinfo.sig. | |
17 | Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service. | |
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d6af2518 | 19 | * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] |
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21 | Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or |
22 | rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users | |
23 | would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust. | |
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25 | Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. |
26 | ||
27 | * user interface | |
3e5980de | 28 | ** add guile-ncurses interface |
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6b8875c8 | 30 | * extend <package> |
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31 | ** add ‘recommends’ field |
32 | ||
33 | For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other. | |
34 | ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or | |
35 | none of the recommendations. | |
36 | ||
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37 | ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’ |
38 | ||
39 | This should specify builder code to be run when building a user | |
40 | environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would | |
41 | create a new ‘dir’. | |
42 | ||
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43 | ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs |
44 | ||
45 | #+BEGIN_SRC scheme | |
46 | (outputs '("out" "include")) | |
47 | (propagated-build-inputs | |
48 | `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1") | |
49 | ("i2" ,p2)) | |
50 | => "include") | |
51 | ("i3" ,p3))) | |
52 | #+END_SRC | |
53 | ||
971cb56d | 54 | * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] |
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56 | Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be | |
57 | dumped from the FSD: | |
58 | http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . | |
59 | We could periodically synchronize with that. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * add a guildhall build system |
62 | ||
63 | The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a | |
64 | ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall | |
65 | recipes. | |
66 | ||
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67 | * union |
68 | ||
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69 | Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor |
70 | per-package priorities, etc. | |
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72 | * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS |
73 | ||
74 | Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be | |
75 | run when that is defined. | |
76 | ||
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77 | * add "guix challenge" |
78 | ||
79 | Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully | |
80 | locally-built) copy. | |
81 | ||
6b8875c8 | 82 | * guix build utils |
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83 | ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name |
84 | ||
8c247e1c | 85 | ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]] |
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29767aae | 87 | ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild |
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89 | See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. | |
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6b8875c8 | 91 | * distro |
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92 | ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’ |
93 | ||
94 | Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. | |
95 | In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and | |
96 | Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. | |
97 |