Getting to 1.0!

Getting to 1.0!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

FOSDEM is only a couple of weeks away, and as we know, FOSDEM is the
proclaimed deadline for 1.0.  We’ve come a long way but there are still
quite a few things to address before we can reasonably release 1.0:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org

GDM support and the installer are in good shape, more hands and more
testing would be welcome!

See also some of the bugs marked as “important” or “serious”:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=guix

I suggest that this week be a Bug Squashing Week!  A bug a day keeps
vaporware away.

Thank you for your attention.  :-)

Ludo’.

Re: Getting to 1.0!

[Ricardo Wurmus]

> FOSDEM is only a couple of weeks away, and as we know, FOSDEM is the
> proclaimed deadline for 1.0.  We’ve come a long way but there are still
> quite a few things to address before we can reasonably release 1.0:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org

I have picked up work on a texlive profile hook and have something
that’s already working.  I’d like to make a few more changes before
asking for a review, though, as the current version does not work with
“texlive-tiny”, making it a little too difficult to use as *all*
packages (including the LaTeX base packages) need to be specified
manually.

I’m confident that we’ll have something ready in time for 1.0.

--
Ricardo

Re: Getting to 1.0!

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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> I have picked up work on a texlive profile hook and have something
> that’s already working.  I’d like to make a few more changes before
> asking for a review, though, as the current version does not work with
> “texlive-tiny”, making it a little too difficult to use as *all*
> packages (including the LaTeX base packages) need to be specified
> manually.

That's great news, thanks for working on it, Ricardo!
I'd be happy to test it!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Getting to 1.0!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

>> FOSDEM is only a couple of weeks away, and as we know, FOSDEM is the
>> proclaimed deadline for 1.0.  We’ve come a long way but there are still
>> quite a few things to address before we can reasonably release 1.0:
>>
>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org
>
> I have picked up work on a texlive profile hook and have something
> that’s already working.  I’d like to make a few more changes before
> asking for a review, though, as the current version does not work with
> “texlive-tiny”, making it a little too difficult to use as *all*
> packages (including the LaTeX base packages) need to be specified
> manually.
>
> I’m confident that we’ll have something ready in time for 1.0.

… and you completed it a day later, woohoo!  \o/

I wonder if we should add section in the manual about ‘texlive’
packages?  The main difficulty is finding which package provides what
one is looking for, so perhaps a little guidance would be welcome, at
least for the most common packages.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Re: Getting to 1.0!

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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https://ctan.org/ can help looking up packages and it seems that it also finds
files but I could be wrong.

As far as I know, MikTeX (on Windows...) can automatically download a missing
package when a compilation fails.
I don't know if TeXlive can do this and if not, it might be a lot of work to get
this change accepted upstream...

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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