--*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
-
-Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-
- Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
- are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
- notice and this notice are preserved.
-
-* integrate needed Nix code
-
-Guix uses Nix’s daemon (‘nix-worker’, later renamed to ‘nix-daemon’) to
-actually perform builds, scheduling, substitution of pre-built binaries,
-and GC-related tasks. The daemon mainly uses ‘libstore’ from Nix.
-Integrating it in Guix itself will make Guix self-contained, thereby
-simplifying our users’ lives.
-
-** Remove dependency on OpenSSL
-
-The ‘openssl’ command-line tool is used in libstore to sign store paths
-to be exported, and to check such signatures. The signing keys are
-usually in /etc/nix/signing-key.{pub,sec}. They are a PKCS#8-encoded
-X.509 SubjectPublicKeyInfo. These can be decoded with the [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnutls/2012-12/msg00012.html][C API of
-GnuTLS]], but not yet with its Guile bindings. There’s also
-‘gnutls_privkey_sign_data’ to sign, and related functions.
-
-** Add a binary cache substituter
-
-Like scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl in Nix, but written in
-Scheme. Substituters allow pre-built binaries to be downloaded when
-they are available from a trusted source.
-
-** MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT
-
-Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet
-DHT. Guix users would sign their binaries, and define which binaries
-they trust.
-
-** Add a remote build hook
-
-Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
-
-* infrastructure
-
-** have a Hydra instance build Guix packages
-
-[[http://nixos.org/hydra/][Hydra]] is a continuous integration tool based on Nix. It now has
-[[https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f27ae1d5663680400cb99cfb898970f34d8d21be][Guile/Guix support]], which allows “build recipes” written in Guile using
-Guix to be used directly on Hydra.
-
-For a start, we may use the instance at hydra.nixos.org, generously
-provided by TU Delft. However, in the future, we may want to setup our
-own instance at gnu.org.
-
-* add guix-pull
-
-A tool that fetches the latest code from [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/guix-master.tar.gz][cgit]], builds a derivation that
-unpacks it, copies only .scm files (this excludes guix/config.in) and
-compiles it, and then links to it from ~/.local/guix/latest . Change
-guix-build and guix-package to have that directory first in their load
-path.
-
-* user interface
-** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
-
-Unfortunately package.el is monolithic, so most likely we’d have to
-write a new one based on it, as opposed to actually using it.
-
-* extend <origin>
-** add OpenPGP signatures:
-
- (origin
- (method http-fetch)
- (uri "http://.../foo.tgz")
- (signature-uri (string-append uri ".sig"))
- (signer-openpgp-fingerprint "..."))
-
-** allow <origin> to be a derivation/package or a file
-
-* extend <package>
-
-** add support for ‘search-paths’
-
-This should be passed to the build system, to extend package-specific
-search path environment variables–like ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’, ‘PERL5LIB’,
-etc.
-
-** add a ‘user-environment-hook’
-
-This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
-environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would
-create a new ‘dir’.
-
-** add ‘patches’ there
-
-** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
- (outputs '("out" "include"))
- (propagated-build-inputs
- `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1")
- ("i2" ,p2))
- => "include")
- ("i3" ,p3)))
-#+END_SRC
-
-* synchronize package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] and/or the Womb
-
-Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
-dumped from the FSD:
-http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge .
-We could periodically synchronize with that.
-
-The [[./guix/gnu-maintenance.scm][Womb]] also contains synopses for all the GNU packages.
-
-* support cross-compilation
-
-Implement ‘package-cross-derivation’, and add the corresponding code in
-‘gnu-build-system’. Then, actually bootstrap a cross-compilation
-environment–e.g., a cross-GNU environment.
-
-* add a guildhall build system
-
-The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a
-‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
-recipes.
-
-* gnu-build-system: produce a ‘debug’ derivation
-
-Set a .gnu_debuglink in the main derivations to point to the sibling
-file name (only the basename, to not retain a dependency on the ‘debug’
-derivation.)
-
-For /nix/store/xyz-foobar/bin/foo, we should have
-/nix/store/abc-foobar-debug/lib/nix/store/xyz-foobar/bin/foo.debug (info
-"(gdb) Separate Debug Files").
-
-Users should have a default GDB setting with ~/.guix-profile/lib/debug
-as their ‘debug-file-directory’.
-
-* build-expression->derivation: define `%system' in the builder
-
-Would allow build expressions to have system-dependent code, like
-`glibc-dynamic-linker'.
-
-* add ‘allowed-references’ in <package>
-
-[[file:~/src/nix/src/libstore/build.cc::if%20(drv.env.find("allowedReferences")%20!%3D%20drv.env.end())%20{][See how Nix implements that internally]].
-
-* union
-
-Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: check
-whether the colliding files are identical, honor per-package priorities,
-etc.
-
-* guix-package
-
-** add ‘--list-generations’, and ‘--delete-generations’
-** add ‘--upgrade’
-** add ‘--search’
-
-* guix build utils
-** Add equivalent to "rm -rf"
-** Add equivalent to Nixpkgs's ‘wrapProgram’
-** Change ‘patch-shebang’ to DTRT for /usr/bin/env
-
-I.e., replace “#!/usr/bin/env perl” by “#!/nix/store/…/bin/perl”.
-
-** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
-
-** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath, possibly using [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
-
-** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
-
-See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
-
-* distro
-** choose a name! (Jinn?)
-** port to new GNU/Linux platforms, notably ‘mipsel64-linux’
-** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
-
-Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
-In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
-Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.
-
-** make a bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro, with OS configuration EDSL
-
-Similar in spirit to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
+-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
+
+#+TITLE: What's left to do?
+#+STARTUP: content hidestars
+
+Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
+
+ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+ notice and this notice are preserved.
+
+* MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
+
+Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or
+rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users
+would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.
+
+Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
+
+* user interface
+** add guile-ncurses interface
+
+* extend <package>
+** add ‘recommends’ field
+
+For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
+‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or
+none of the recommendations.
+
+** add a ‘user-environment-hook’
+
+This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
+environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would
+create a new ‘dir’.
+
+** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
+ (outputs '("out" "include"))
+ (propagated-build-inputs
+ `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1")
+ ("i2" ,p2))
+ => "include")
+ ("i3" ,p3)))
+#+END_SRC
+
+* synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
+
+Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
+dumped from the FSD:
+http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge .
+We could periodically synchronize with that.
+
+* add a guildhall build system
+
+The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a
+‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
+recipes.
+
+* union
+
+Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
+per-package priorities, etc.
+
+* add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
+
+Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be
+run when that is defined.
+
+* guix build utils
+** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
+
+** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
+
+** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
+
+See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
+
+* distro
+** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
+
+Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
+In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
+Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.
+
+* Installer
+** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started
+See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
+- Force reboot upon installer failure
+- Unshare the installer process
+- Run the installer process in a separate namespace
+** Partitioning
+*** Add RAID support
+*** Add more partitioning schemes
+The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not
+implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp".
+*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait"
+Create a new waiting page describing what's being done:
+
+[ 20% ]
+Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ...
+
+[ 40% ]
+Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ...
+*** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning
+** Desktop environments
+*** Allow for no desktop environments
+Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new
+page.
+*** Add services selection feature
+Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed
+like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list?
+** Locale and keymap
+*** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode)
+** Timezone
+*** Regroup everything in one single page
+Under the form:
+(UTC + 1) Europe/Paris
+(UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo
+...
+** Display issue
+*** Investigate display issue described here:
+https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html
HCoop / jackhill / guix / guix.git / blobdiff