From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: [GSoC] Emacs UI for Guix Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:05:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjlm6o4h.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <877g8q4uxg.fsf@inria.fr> <87iosagz9m.fsf@yagnesh.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]:55036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGRRI-0002aw-Vw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:05:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGRRC-0000e5-M8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:05:12 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:49434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGRRC-0000dW-Em for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:05:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87iosagz9m.fsf@yagnesh.org> (Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:54:13 +0900") 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: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, (Moving to guix-devel@.) Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala skribis: > I am Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala, doing doctoral course in Hokkaido Universit= y, > Japan. I think I am eligible to apply for GSoC. If possible I would like = to > participate this time under GNU umbrella. > > I think I am able to work on the following idea since I am familiar with > Emacs/Emacs-lisp and package.el (though not an expert in any regard). I > thought this would be learning experience in general. > > I would be glad if you can be my mentor for the proposal. Cool, this sounds like a nice plan! I would recommend that you first familiarize yourself with Guix by installing it, reporting any problems, and browsing the docs and code. This project may require a little bit of Scheme hacking to factorize code between the =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 command and what the Emacs = UI would be using (in the (guix profiles) module, specifically.) Do you have experience with Scheme and Guile? Most of the rest of the code will be elisp though, obviously. There will be design choices to be made, such as whether the UI would communicate with Guile/Guix via Geiser or through some ad hoc mechanism. > PS: I have signed copyright assignments to FSF for Emacs and Guile but not > guix. No copyright assignment is needed for Guix, so you=E2=80=99re all set. :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.