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	3	#+TITLE: What's left to do?
	4	#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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	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.
	11
	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.
	18
	19	* MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
	20
	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.
	24
	25	Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
	26
	27	* user interface
	28	** add guile-ncurses interface
	29
	30	* extend <package>
	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
	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
	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
	54	* synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
	55
	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
	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
	67	* union
	68
	69	Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
	70	per-package priorities, etc.
	71
	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
	77	* add "guix challenge"
	78
	79	Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully
	80	locally-built) copy.
	81
	82	* guix build utils
	83	** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
	84
	85	** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
	86
	87	** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
	88
	89	See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
	90
	91	* distro
	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