Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>]

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> I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice, due to my interest
> in Haskell, and emailed Ludo to this effect.

I haven't tried xmonad myself, but I hope to try it when we have GHC on
mips64el (actually, we haven't packaged GHC for i686 and x86 too).

> I chose stumpwm because I prefer tiling managers to conventional ones,
> though I would respect if the view of the crowd was that conventional
> wms would be more useful to have for the distro - there are Common Lisp
> (and even Guile, sort of) alternatives in the conventional realm.

I also use a tiling WM and I'm OK with the idea.  And I think that it
should be easier to adapt a tiling WM than a non-tiling one.  Maybe it's
not even possible to package something like GNOME right now, but I'm not
sure about that.  (I guess that you should ask Andreas about the state
of X-related things.)

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that most people use non-tiling WMs
and maybe we should think about them first.  But I don't really think
that it's a right time for that.  Because the distro isn't bootable yet
and there aren't too many packages.

> Upon looking around further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100%
> Common Lisp, so I propose a compromise: adapt and package stumpwm for
> use with Guile Scheme and Guix, and then use the resulting environment
> to have a free software distribution configurable primarily in Guile
> Scheme.

But what do you mean by "adapt for Guix"?  What would you like to
implement?  The only thing that comes to mind is to have shortcuts for
commands like 'guix package'.

It sounds like the proposed project has more to do with Guile than Guix.
But I haven't heard the details yet.  Please elaborate.

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