blob: 2475cb637ceb6eb43f54d080c56e5793041b76e5 (about) (plain) mitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. 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 Freenode! * 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

2016-05-16	gnu: asymptote: Install Emacs data....	Nicolas Goaziou