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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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guix/build-system/dub.scm (dub-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/emacs.scm (emacs-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/go.scm (go-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/haskell.scm (haskell-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/julia.scm (julia-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/linux-module.scm (linux-module-build) (linux-module-build-cross): Likewise. * guix/build-system/maven.scm (maven-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/minify.scm (minify-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/node.scm (node-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/qt.scm (qt-build, qt-cross-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/r.scm (r-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/rakudo.scm (rakudo-build): Likewise. * guix/build-system/renpy.scm (renpy-build): Likewise. * tests/builders.scm ("gnu-build"): Call 'store-lower' on 'gnu-build'. Pass #:source parameter. * tests/packages.scm ("search paths"): Use 'abort-to-prompt' instead of a normal return from the 'build' method. ("package->bag, sensitivity to %current-target-system"): Change 'build' to match the new build system signature. squash! build-system: Rewrite using gexps. squash! build-system: Rewrite using gexps. Ludovic Courtès 2020-12-15system: 'init' does not recompute the hash of each store item....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/44760>. Previously, the 'register-path' call would re-traverse ITEM to compute its nar hash, even though that hash is already known in the initial store. This patch also avoids repeated opening/closing of the database. * guix/store/database.scm (call-with-database): Export. * guix/scripts/system.scm (copy-item): Add 'db' parameter. Call 'sqlite-register' instead of 'register-path'. (copy-closure): Remove redundant call to 'references*'. Call 'call-with-database' and pass the database to 'copy-item'. Ludovic Courtès 2020-11-17Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/version-1.2.0' into master...Conflicts: gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm The python-pysam package fixed in master was kept instead of the update done in the version-1.2.0 branch. Maxim Cournoyer 2020-11-16.dir-locals.el: Add upstream report link....Follow up from 1d6e7732b163c9e945c9e5b32c726fe3b5f09c3a. * .dir-locals.el: Modify comment to point at the report to bug-gnu-emacs. Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas 2020-11-16.dir-locals.el: Use setq-local on guix-directory....* .dir-locals.el: Use setq-local on guix-directory. While a problem with using setq hasn't been identified, this seems like good hygiene. Christopher Lemmer Webber 2020-11-16.dir-locals.el: Prevent errors if .dir-locals.el isn't found....While this repo should presumably always have a .dir-locals.el by the nature of this file itself, it seems that this behavior "leaks". See added comment for more details on the fix to this strange bug, which is likely an upstream emacs or vc-mode issue. Thanks to Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas and Maxim Cournoyer for helping investigate this problem. * .dir-locals.el: Don't error out if .dir-locals.el isn't found. Christopher Lemmer Webber 2020-11-12maint: update-guix-package: Optionally add sources to store....Following discussions in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43893>, keeping a copy of the updated package source is desirable when generating a release. * build-aux/update-guix-package.scm (version-controlled?): Remove variable. (call-with-temporary-git-worktree): Renamed from 'with-temporary-git-worktree'. Update doc. Do not change directory implicitly. Define as a procedure, not a syntax. (keep-source-in-store): New procedure. (main): Adjust to use with call-with-temporary-git-worktree. Add the sources to the store when GUIX_ALLOW_ME_TO_USE_PRIVATE_COMMIT is set. Exit gracefully when FIND-ORIGIN-REMOTE returns #f. (%savannah-guix-git-repo-push-url-regexp): Adjust match for a potential colon separator. * Makefile.am (GUIX_ALLOW_ME_TO_USE_PRIVATE_COMMIT): Adjust. * .dir-locals.el (scheme-mode): Remove entry for with-temporary-git-worktree. * doc/contributing.texi (Updating the Guix Package): Update doc. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Maxim Cournoyer 2020-11-01.dir-locals.el: Require cl-lib at runtime....* .dir-locals.el (nil)<Geiser>: Load cl-lib when needed. Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas 2020-10-31.dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable....Thanks to Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas and Pierre Neidhardt for their suggestions and improvements. * .dir-locals.el: Set the GUIX-DIRECTORY and GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH Emacs variables based on the location of the .dir-locals file. Maxim Cournoyer 2020-10-19maint: update-guix-package: Prevent accidentally breaking guix pull....Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43893>. This changes the 'update-guix-package' tool so that it: 1. Always uses a clean checkout to compute the hash of the updated 'guix' package. 2. Ensures the commit used in the updated 'guix' package definition has already been pushed upstream. * build-aux/update-guix-package.scm (%savannah-guix-git-repo-push-url): New variable. (with-input-pipe-to-string, with-temporary-git-worktree): New syntaxes. (find-origin-remote, git-add-worktree): New procedures. (commit-already-pushed?): New predicate. (main): Check the commit used has already been pushed upstream and compute the hash from a clean checkout. * doc/contributing.texi (Updating the Guix Package): Document it. * .dir-locals.el (scheme-mode): Fix indentation of with-temporary-git-worktree. Maxim Cournoyer 2020-09-14deduplication: pass store directory to replace-with-link....This causes with-writable-file to take into consideration the actual store being used, as passed to 'deduplicate', rather than whatever (%store-directory) may return. * guix/store/deduplication.scm (replace-with-link): new keyword argument 'store'. Pass to with-writable-file. (with-writable-file, call-with-writable-file): new store argument. (deduplicate): pass store to replace-with-link. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Caleb Ristvedt 2020-09-14.dir-locals.el: fix call-with-{retrying-}transaction indenting....* .dir-locals.el (call-with-transaction, call-with-retrying-transaction): change scheme-indent-function property from 2 to 1. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Caleb Ristvedt 2020-08-26.dir-locals.el: Add indentation rule for 'package/inherit'....* .dir-locals.el (scheme-mode): Add 'package/inherit'. Ludovic Courtès