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| 3 | #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map | |
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| 5 | Copyright © 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
| 8 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
| 9 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold: | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and | |
| 14 | Guile; | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of | |
| 17 | GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the | |
| 18 | promotion and tight integration of GNU components. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | This documents lists tentative milestones toward these goals. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | ||
| 23 | * GNU Guix 0.1: Dec. 2012 | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | ** basic package management facilities | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | ** self-contained user-land distribution | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | - GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64 | |
| 32 | - ~100 non-X11 packages | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | ** maybe integrated Nix code | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | * GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013 | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | ** improved package management features | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | - user-environment hooks | |
| 41 | - sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package | |
| 42 | priorities, etc.) | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | ** auto-update facility available for GNU packages | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | ** more packages | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | - Xorg | |
| 49 | - Emacs | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | * GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013 | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro | |
| 54 | ** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | * GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release) | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer | |
| 59 | ** usable for a range of hacker-style uses |