What’s next?

What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

So, I think we now want to start working on a bootable distro.

However, I would add a less ambitious 0.3 milestone, first, ideally to
be released before July.  For 0.3, I would like to add actual
cross-compilation support.  If everything goes well, that would allow
the MIPS/N64 port to be bootstrap (and perhaps an ARM port too?).  0.3
would also add interesting packages (GTK+, for instance), and bug fixes.
WDYT?

Working on support for a bootable distro will require some thought and
design, and that should be started ASAP.  I’ll send an email in the next
few days to discuss my current thoughts.

Ludo’.

Re: What’s next?

[Andreas Enge]

Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> However, I would add a less ambitious 0.3 milestone, first, ideally to
> be released before July.  For 0.3, I would like to add actual
> cross-compilation support.  If everything goes well, that would allow
> the MIPS/N64 port to be bootstrap (and perhaps an ARM port too?).

This looks like an attractive goal to me.

> 0.3 would also add interesting packages (GTK+, for instance), and bug 
fixes.

I started some work on gtk+, with a few tentative recipes for cairo and 
pango. The cairo tests fail for the time being, and I will not be able to 
investigate during the next two weeks.

Andreas

Re: What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> However, I would add a less ambitious 0.3 milestone, first, ideally to
>> be released before July.  For 0.3, I would like to add actual
>> cross-compilation support.  If everything goes well, that would allow
>> the MIPS/N64 port to be bootstrap (and perhaps an ARM port too?).
>
> This looks like an attractive goal to me.

Good.  :-)

>> 0.3 would also add interesting packages (GTK+, for instance), and bug 
> fixes.
>
> I started some work on gtk+, with a few tentative recipes for cairo and 
> pango. The cairo tests fail for the time being, and I will not be able to 
> investigate during the next two weeks.

Could you perhaps commit Cairo with #:tests? #f for now?  That would
“unblock” a few packages, and hopefully one of us can fix it eventually.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> So, I think we now want to start working on a bootable distro.
>
> However, I would add a less ambitious 0.3 milestone, first, ideally to
> be released before July.  For 0.3, I would like to add actual
> cross-compilation support.  If everything goes well, that would allow
> the MIPS/N64 port to be bootstrap (and perhaps an ARM port too?).  0.3
> would also add interesting packages (GTK+, for instance), and bug fixes.
> WDYT?

It’s been almost two months since the 0.2 release.  We achieved some of
the important items above (cross-compilation, and cross-compilation of
the bootstrap tools); other items are not ready yet (MIPS port, GTK+);
there are also bonuses, such as debugging info support.

So I would like to merge ‘core-updates’ soon, and release 0.3 within one
or two weeks.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.