* integrate needed Nix code
-** Remove dependency on OpenSSL
+** MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
-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.
+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.
-** Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server
+** 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.
-** 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.
-
* user interface
** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
** 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>
** add ‘recommends’ field
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
("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=" $foo))))
+
+#+END_SRC
-* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
+... where '~' is 'build-quote' and '$' 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
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.
-* 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]].
whether the colliding files are identical, honor per-package priorities,
etc.
-* guix package
+* 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.
-** add ‘--list-generations’, and ‘--delete-generations’
* guix build utils
** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
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