ROADMAP

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   3 #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
   4
   5 Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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  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.
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  22
  23 * GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: 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 ** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users
  45 ** support for fetching pre-built binaries
  46
  47   - this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance
  48
  49 ** auto-update facility available for GNU packages
  50
  51 ** more packages
  52
  53   - Xorg
  54   - Emacs
  55
  56 * GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013
  57
  58 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro
  59 ** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS
  60
  61 * GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release)
  62
  63 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer
  64 ** usable for a range of hacker-style uses