gnu: Add perl-getopt-tabular.

[jackhill/guix/guix.git] / TODO

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@@ -3,32 +3,20 @@
 #+TITLE: What's left to do?
 #+STARTUP: content hidestars
 
 #+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.
 
 
   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
-
-** 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 `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server
+* 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.
 
 
 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.
 

-** 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
 
 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


@@ -36,31 +24,10 @@ would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.
 
 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
 
 
 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
 

-** Add a remote build hook
-
-Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
-

 * user interface
 * 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
 
 ** add guile-ncurses interface
 

-* 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>
 * extend <package>

-

 ** add ‘recommends’ field
 
 For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
 ** add ‘recommends’ field
 
 For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.


@@ -73,8 +40,6 @@ 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’.
 
 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
 ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC scheme


@@ -86,37 +51,23 @@ create a new ‘dir’.
       ("i3" ,p3)))
 #+END_SRC
 
       ("i3" ,p3)))
 #+END_SRC
 

-
-* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
+* 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.
 
 
 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.
 

-See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-04/msg00120.html for info
-on how to synchronize with GSRC's descriptions.
-

 * 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.
 
 * 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.
 

-* 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
 
 * 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
 
 
 * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
 


@@ -128,10 +79,6 @@ run when that is defined.
 Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully
 locally-built) copy.
 
 Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully
 locally-built) copy.
 

-* guix package
-
-** add ‘--list-generations’, and ‘--delete-generations’
-

 * guix build utils
 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
 
 * guix build utils
 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
 


@@ -142,13 +89,9 @@ locally-built) copy.
 See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
 
 * distro
 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.
 
 ** 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.