ROADMAP

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   3 #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
   4
   5 Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 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–the GNU system.
  19
  20 This document lists milestones toward these goals.
  21
  22 The timeline below was written at the end of Dec. 2012.  An updated and more
  23 detailed list of the remaining milestones was posted at
  24 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00120.html .
  25
  26 The actual timeline was of course slightly different than initially
  27 envisioned, and so was the feature set–things like cross-compilation support
  28 and the MIPS64 port were not planned back then.  See the news section at
  29 http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ and ‘NEWS’ for the release history.
  30
  31 * GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: Dec. 2012)
  32
  33 ** basic package management facilities
  34
  35 Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search.
  36
  37 ** self-contained user-land distribution
  38
  39   - GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64
  40   - ~100 non-X11 packages
  41
  42 ** maybe integrated Nix code
  43
  44 * GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013
  45
  46 ** improved package management features
  47
  48   - user-environment hooks
  49   - sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package
  50     priorities, etc.)
  51
  52 ** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users
  53 ** support for fetching pre-built binaries
  54
  55   - this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance
  56
  57 ** auto-update facility available for GNU packages
  58
  59 ** more packages
  60
  61   - Xorg
  62   - Emacs
  63
  64 * GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013
  65
  66 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro
  67 ** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS
  68
  69 * GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release)
  70
  71 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer
  72 ** usable for a range of hacker-style uses