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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map

Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

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The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:

  - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
    Guile;

  - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
    GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
    promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system.

Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal.  Below
is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of the Guix System Distribution.
There will be a few 0.x releases by then to give the new features more
exposure and testing.

You're welcome to discuss this road map on guix-devel@gnu.org or #guix on
the Libera Chat IRC network!

* Features scheduled for 1.0

  - larger & more robust build farm
    + we need a powerful, dedicated front-end
    + armhf-linux build machine
    + leave Hydra in favor of 'guix publish' + custom code?
  - more OS features
    + LVM support
    + encrypted root
    + configurable name service switch
    + whole-system unit tests, using VMs
  - more service definitions
    + mcron, postfix(?), wicd(?), etc.
  - better 'guix system'
    + 'reconfigure' should be able to restart non-essential services
    + support for '--list-generations' and '--delete-generations'
  - better 'guix pull'
    + using Git to fetch the source instead of re-downloading everything
    + build more quickly
    + install new .mo files and new manual
    + authentication of the Guix source: use signed commits?
  - simplified, purely declarative service list in 'operating-system'
    + it should be possible to inspect the service instance declarations and
      settings
  - GUIs
    + integrate guix-web?
    + guile-ncurses installer?
  - 'guix publish'?

* Features for later

  - complete GNU/Hurd port
  - use content-based addressing when downloading substitutes to reduce
    bandwidth requirements
    + design nar v2 format where file contents are replaced by their hashes
    + leverage /gnu/store/.links
  - binary origin tracking
    + keep signatures in sqlite.db
    + preserve signatures upon import/export
  - peer-to-peer distribution of updates (GNUnet?)
  - more deterministic builds
    + identify & fix sources of non-determinism in builds
    + strengthen guix-daemon containers to further increase reproducibility
    + trusting-trust: bootstrap with different tool chains
    + fixed-point: re-bootstrap until fixed point is reached
    + distributed validation: compare contents of store items with others
      * resist a hydra.gnu.org compromise
  - reproducible containers: mix of 'guix environment' and 'guix system vm'
  - execute code with least privilege
    + build containers like guix-daemon does
    + provide a Plash-like interface in Bash
  - daemon rewritten in Guile
  - more shepherd integration
    + monitor network interfaces and start/stop events based on that
    + include a DHCP client written in Scheme
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> Maxim Cournoyer 2021-05-04tests: go: Fix typos in test descriptions....* tests/go.scm: Fix ‘embeded’ typos. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 2021-04-09import: go: Add an option to use pinned versions....The ability to pin versions is handy when having to deal to packages that bootstrap themselves through a chain of former versions. Not using pinned versions in these case could introduce dependency cycles. * guix/build-system/go.scm (guix) (%go-version-rx): Rename to... (%go-pseudo-version-rx): ... this. Simplify the regular expression, which in turns makes it more robust. * guix/build-system/go.scm (go-version->git-ref): Adjust following the above rename. (go-pseudo-version?): New predicate. (go-module-latest-version): Rename to ... (go-module-version-string): ... this. Rename goproxy-url argument to just goproxy. Add a VERSION keyword argument, update docstring and adjust to have it used. (go-module-available-versions): New procedure. (%go.mod-require-directive-rx): Document regexp. (parse-go.mod): Harmonize the way dependencies are recorded to a list of lists rather than a list of pairs, as done for other importers. Rewrite to directly pass multiple values rather than a record object. Filter the replaced modules in a functional style. (go-module->guix-package): Add docstring. [version, pin-versions?]: New arguments. Rename the GOPROXY-URL argument to GOPROXY. Adjust to the new returned value of fetch-go.mod, which is a string. Fail when the provided version doesn't exist. Return a list dependencies and their versions when in pinned versions mode, else just the dependencies. (go-module-recursive-import)[version, pin-versions?]: New arguments. Honor the new arguments and guard against network errors. * guix/scripts/import/go.scm (%default-options): Register a default value for the goproxy argument. (show-help): Document that a version can be specified. Remove the --version argument and add a --pin-versions argument. (%options)[version]: Remove option. [pin-versions]: Add option. (guix-import-go): Adjust so the version provided from the module name is honored, along the new pin-versions? argument. * tests/go.scm: Adjust and add new tests. Maxim Cournoyer 2021-04-09import: go: Improve synopsis and description parsing....* guix/import/go.scm (%strict-tokenizer?): Set parameter to #t. (go-path-escape): Redefine to prevent inlining. (http-get*): Replace by ... (http-fetch*): this ... (json-fetch*): New procedure. (go.pkg.dev-info): Use http-fetch*. (go-package-licenses): Rewrite in terms of go.pkg.dev-info. (go-package-description): Likewise. (go-package-synopsis): Likewise. (fetch-go.mod): Use the memoized http-fetch*. (parse-go.mod): Adjust to receive content as a string. (fetch-module-meta-data): Adjust to use http-fetch*. (go-module->guix-package): Adjust to the modified fetch-go.mod return value. [inputs]: Use propagated inputs, which is the most common situations for Go libraries. [description]: Beautify description. [licenses]: Do no check for #f. The result of the license parsing is always a list. * tests/go.scm: Adjust following above changes. Maxim Cournoyer 2021-03-10import: go: Compute the hash of Git checkouts....* guix/import/go.scm (vcs-file?, file-hash, git-checkout-hash): New procedures. (vcs->origin): Use 'git-checkout-hash' in the 'git case. Ludovic Courtès 2021-03-10import: Add Go importer....This patch adds a 'guix import go' command. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Mention Guile-Lib dependency. (Invoking guix import): Document 'guix import go'. * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix)[inputs, propagated-inputs]: Add GUILE-LIB. * guix/self.scm (compiled-guix)[guile-lib]: New variable. [dependencies]: Add it. (specification->package): Add "guile-lib". * guix/build-system/go.scm (go-version->git-ref): New procedure. * guix/import/go.scm, guix/scripts/import/go.scm, tests/go.scm: New files. * guix/scripts/import.scm: Declare subcommand guix import go * po/guix/POTFILES.in: Add 'guix/scripts/import/go.scm'. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add 'guix/import/go.scm' and 'guix/scripts/import/go.scm'. (SCM_TESTS): Add 'tests/go.scm'. Co-Authored-By: Helio Machado <0x2b3bfa0@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Francois Joulaud <francois.joulaud@radiofrance.com> Co-Authored-By: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> Co-Authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Katherine Cox-Buday