From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Guix hacking ideas Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:10:23 +0100 Message-ID: <8761nbbqkg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPtmo-0005l8-LQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:10:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPtmj-0000PI-Pi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:10:30 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:39300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPtmj-0000Ok-J5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:10:25 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9C31FE5 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:10:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vJMY5xM5N6Z5 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:10:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from pluto (pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr [193.50.110.57]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC1DA1F33 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:10:23 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel Hello! Here are ideas of hacks that came to mind recently. These are independent tasks, so they would be suitable for something like GSoC or for someone looking for a small project or a way to get started with Guix hacking. =E2=80=A2 Writing a GTK+ GUI for Guix using Guile-GNOME (I looked and I d= on=E2=80=99t think PackageKit is suitable for us, for various reasons.) =E2=80=A2 Write a tool, say =E2=80=98guix scan=E2=80=99, that scans a sou= rce tree and its configure.ac etc. files, and produces a template package definition. =E2=80=A2 Write tools to synchronize meta-data with the Free Software Directory (FSD). This is currently technically difficult because it=E2=80=99s impossible to export the FSD database non-interactively (s= ee the =E2=80=98TODO=E2=80=99 file), so this would need discussion with th= e FSD hackers. Perhaps we should have an ideas page on gnu.org/s/guix. Thoughts? Volunteers? :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.