#+TITLE: What's left to do?
#+STARTUP: content hidestars
-Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 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
-
-** MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
+* 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
Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
-** Add a remote build hook
-
-Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
-
-* Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server
-
-Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests.
-Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also
-reply to requests for .narinfo.sig.
-Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service.
-
* user interface
-** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
-
-package.el is quite monolithic, but we may be able to reuse/extend
-‘package-menu-mode’ or at least ‘tabulated-list-mode’.
-
** add guile-ncurses interface
* extend <package>
-
** add ‘recommends’ field
For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
("i3" ,p3)))
#+END_SRC
-* MAYBE use HOP-like escapes to refer to inputs in build-side code
-
-Instead of doing things like:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
- (inputs `(("foo" ,foo)))
- (arguments '(#:configure-flags
- (list (string-append "--with-foo="
- (assoc-ref %build-inputs "foo")))))
-#+END_SRC
-
-Allow things like:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
- (inputs (list foo))
- (arguments ~(#:configure-flags
- (list (string-append "--with-foo=" $foo))))
-
-#+END_SRC
-
-... where '~' is 'build-quote' and '$' is 'build-unquote'. Better yet,
-automatically compute the list of references of an expression passed to
-'derivation-expression'.
-
-Use a [[http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/2011/09/scheme-syntax-is-monad.html][monad]] for the syntax.
-
* synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
recipes.
-* 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.
+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.
-* add "guix challenge"
-
-Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully
-locally-built) copy.
-
-
* guix build utils
** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
* distro
-** 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.
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