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Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>

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* 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 sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.

Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.

* user interface
** add guile-ncurses interface

* extend <package>
** add ‘recommends’ field

For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or
none of the recommendations.

** add a ‘user-environment-hook’

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’.

** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
  (outputs '("out" "include"))
  (propagated-build-inputs
    `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1")
        ("i2" ,p2))
       => "include")
      ("i3" ,p3)))
#+END_SRC

* 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.

* 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.

* union

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.

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

** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]

** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild

See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].

* distro
** 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.

* Installer
** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started
See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
- Force reboot upon installer failure
- Unshare the installer process
- Run the installer process in a separate namespace
** Partitioning
*** Add RAID support
*** Add more partitioning schemes
The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not
implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp".
*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait"
Create a new waiting page describing what's being done:

[              20%              ]
Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ...

[              40%              ]
Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ...
*** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning
** Desktop environments
*** Allow for no desktop environments
Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new
page.
*** Add services selection feature
Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed
like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list?
** Locale and keymap
*** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode)
** Timezone
*** Regroup everything in one single page
Under the form:
(UTC + 1) Europe/Paris
(UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo
...
** Display issue
*** Investigate display issue described here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html
): Add the errors-only option.
(test-runner-gnu): Add the errors-only? parameter and update doc.  Move the
logging of the test data after the test has completed, so a choice can be made
whether to keep it or discard it based on the value of the test result.
(main): Pass the errors-only? option to the driver.
* doc/guix.texi (Running the Test Suite): Document the new option.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-01-31 22:28:37 -0500'>2021-01-31</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/test-driver.scm?id=a1ea2acb376c8a74f41ce0e683680417207b365a'>build: test-driver.scm: Add test cases filtering options.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/test-driver.scm (show-help): Add help text for the new --select
and --exclude options.
(%options): Add the new select and exclude options.
(test-runner-gnu): Pass them to the test runner.  Update doc.
(test-match-name*, test-match-name*/negated, %test-match-all): New variables.
(main): Compute the test specifier based on the values of the new options and
apply it to the current test runner when running the test file.
* doc/guix.texi (Running the Test Suite): Document the new options.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-01-31 22:23:41 -0500'>2021-01-31</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/test-driver.scm?id=346210b1b2130112dd5f894c1d40afb37c1c51a5'>build: test-driver.scm: Enable colored test results by default.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>The Automake parallel test harness does its own smart detection of the
terminal color capability and always provides the --color-tests argument to
the driver.  This change defaults the --color-tests argument to true when the
test driver is run on its own (not via Automake).

* build-aux/test-driver.scm (main): Set the default value of the --color-tests
argument to true when it's not explicitly provided.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-01-31 22:23:41 -0500'>2021-01-31</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/test-driver.scm?id=13f299b2c98cce0ede3a8a37dd11832fdb3827bb'>build: test-driver.scm: Make output redirection optional.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>This makes it easier (and less surprising) for users to experiment with the
custom Scheme test driver directly.  The behavior is unchanged from Automake's
point of view.

* build-aux/test-driver.scm (main): Make the --log-file and --trs-file
arguments optional and update doc.  Only open, redirect and close a port to a log file when
the --log-file option is provided.  Only open and close a port to a trs file
when the --trs-file option is provided.
(test-runner-gnu): Set OUT-PORT parameter default value to the current output
port.  Set the TRS-PORT parameter default value to a void port.  Update doc.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>