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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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d6af2518 | 12 | * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] |
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14 | Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or |
15 | rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users | |
16 | would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust. | |
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18 | Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. |
19 | ||
20 | * user interface | |
3e5980de | 21 | ** add guile-ncurses interface |
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6b8875c8 | 23 | * extend <package> |
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24 | ** add ‘recommends’ field |
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26 | For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other. | |
27 | ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or | |
28 | none of the recommendations. | |
29 | ||
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30 | ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’ |
31 | ||
32 | This should specify builder code to be run when building a user | |
33 | environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would | |
34 | create a new ‘dir’. | |
35 | ||
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36 | ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs |
37 | ||
38 | #+BEGIN_SRC scheme | |
39 | (outputs '("out" "include")) | |
40 | (propagated-build-inputs | |
41 | `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1") | |
42 | ("i2" ,p2)) | |
43 | => "include") | |
44 | ("i3" ,p3))) | |
45 | #+END_SRC | |
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971cb56d | 47 | * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] |
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49 | Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be | |
50 | dumped from the FSD: | |
51 | http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . | |
52 | We could periodically synchronize with that. | |
53 | ||
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54 | * add a guildhall build system |
55 | ||
56 | The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a | |
57 | ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall | |
58 | recipes. | |
59 | ||
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60 | * union |
61 | ||
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62 | Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor |
63 | per-package priorities, etc. | |
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65 | * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS |
66 | ||
67 | Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be | |
68 | run when that is defined. | |
69 | ||
6b8875c8 | 70 | * guix build utils |
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71 | ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name |
72 | ||
8c247e1c | 73 | ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]] |
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29767aae | 75 | ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild |
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77 | See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. | |
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6b8875c8 | 79 | * distro |
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80 | ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’ |
81 | ||
82 | Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. | |
83 | In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and | |
84 | Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. | |
85 |