From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Testing the installer Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:54:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87r1zqql3a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o8v8qq59.fsf@inria.fr> <87tv4yqxd9.fsf@gmail.com> <87h80nb003.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2tyfr24.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iudsj-0000AF-Ue for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:54:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y2tyfr24.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:41:23 +0100") 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: guix-devel Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> I=E2=80=99ve pushed =E2=80=98wip-installer-test=E2=80=99, which implemen= ts said protocol. See >> screenshot below! :-) > > Woow, that's impressive :) Glad you like it. :-) > I just gave you access to Guile-newt repository so that you can > integrate your changes. I will create a new release once its done. Thanks, will do! > In the future, I would have liked to keep open the possibility of having > one installer with multiple graphical backends (newt, gtk, cli). That > would mean that we would need to factorize the protocol part in the > backend agnostic part of the installer. > > Anyway, for now it would be completely over-engineered, as we don't know > yet if a new backend will come one day. Yeah, I think that can come later. > Please let me know if you want help on some point but, I think that I'll > try to tackle the "installer cannot restart issue". It=E2=80=99d be great if you could address that issue! For my part, I=E2=80=99ll try to get with at least one test to make sure the approach is viable. Then I=E2=80=99ll need help to write new tests and to improve things here and there. Also, for 1.0, we had also messed up with things like MATE. I=E2=80=99d li= ke us to have system tests for the desktops we propose: GNOME, MATE, etc. That would mean at least ensuring that a config like that of =E2=80=98desktop.tmpl=E2=80=99 allows us to log in via GDM, and then to sta= rt a terminal in the desktop (I suppose we could do that using the keyboard, with =E2=80=98marionette-type=E2=80=99 etc. NixOS tests are a good source of in= spiration: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/gnome3.nix Help welcome! Ludo=E2=80=99.