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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ee5bc7fd2d..b7c8ca4313 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -3,26 +3,12 @@ #+TITLE: What's left to do? #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. -* integrate needed Nix code - -** 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. - -** 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. @@ -30,16 +16,18 @@ 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. -* user interface -** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end +* MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] -package.el is quite monolithic, but we may be able to reuse/extend -‘package-menu-mode’ or at least ‘tabulated-list-mode’. +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. @@ -76,15 +64,10 @@ 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. -* 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]]. - * union -Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: check -whether the colliding files are identical, honor per-package priorities, -etc. +Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor +per-package priorities, etc. * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS @@ -96,7 +79,6 @@ run when that is defined. Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully locally-built) copy. - * guix build utils ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name @@ -107,13 +89,9 @@ locally-built) copy. See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. * distro -** port to new GNU/Linux platforms, notably ‘mipsel64-linux’ ** 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. -** make a bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro, with OS configuration EDSL - -Similar in spirit to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. |