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-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
#+TITLE: What's left to do?
#+STARTUP: content hidestars
Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
* infrastructure
** have a Hydra instance build Guix packages
[[http://nixos.org/hydra/][Hydra]] is a continuous integration tool based on Nix. It now has
[[https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f27ae1d5663680400cb99cfb898970f34d8d21be][Guile/Guix support]], which allows “build recipes” written in Guile using
Guix to be used directly on Hydra.
For a start, we may use the instance at hydra.nixos.org, generously
provided by TU Delft. However, in the future, we may want to setup our
own instance at gnu.org.
* user interface
** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
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* extend <package>
** add support for search-paths
This should be passed to the build system, to extend package-specific
search path environment variableslike GUILE_LOAD_PATH, PERL5LIB,
etc.
** add a user-environment-hook
This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
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("i3" ,p3)))
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* synchronize package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] and/or the Womb
* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or 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.
The [[./guix/gnu-maintenance.scm][Womb]] also contains synopses for all the GNU packages.
* support cross-compilation
Implement package-cross-derivation, and add the corresponding code in
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** add --list-generations, and --delete-generations
* guix build utils
** Add equivalent to Nixpkgs's wrapProgram
** MAYBE Change ld-wrapper to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath, possibly using [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
** 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