From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Goals for 0.4 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:59:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjr1op7s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vc2o4qwc.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]:52824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOaj8-000516-19 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:05:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOaj2-00032L-4d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:05:01 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:58151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOaj1-000329-Tv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:04:56 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC92015DF for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:59:52 +0200 (CEST) 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 3ca0MSqZcXGz for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:59:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6565915DD for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:59:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87vc2o4qwc.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:34:27 +0200") 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@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis: > First, I=E2=80=99d like to release 0.4 by (or on) GNU=E2=80=99s 30th birt= hday, which is > on Sep. 28th [0]. On the 28th, I=E2=80=99d also like to have a bootable = QEMU > image built with Guix, featuring at least the init system (dmd), a > console login, and bare utilities. > > What I would really like to see in 0.4: > > =E2=80=A2 Guix must be usable with the old Guile 2.0.5, since that=E2= =80=99s what some > distros provide. At the GHM I realized that some people had weird > bugs with that Guile, notably in the substituter. I fixed a couple > of bugs, but there may be others around. > > So, to 2.0.5 users: please run =E2=80=98make check=E2=80=99, use Guix= and in > particular the substituter, and report bugs! > > =E2=80=A2 Packages: as already discussed, more packages, anything that = makes > the distro more useful (having Git is a must.) > A package a day keeps the competition away. ;-) > > =E2=80=A2 Core updates: in particular libc 2.18. Possibly switch to GC= C 4.8 > as the default compiler. > > =E2=80=A2 APIs: new or extended APIs for building stand-alone images. = I=E2=80=99ve > been looking into that recently, notably with the initrd stuff. > > =E2=80=A2 New =E2=80=98--list-generations=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98--delet= e-generations=E2=80=99 options for > =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99. > > =E2=80=A2 Manual: improve as we see fit; notably add a section on font = usage > for X applications. I think we=E2=80=99re almost there, so here=E2=80=99s a plan: we=E2=80=99ll= merge =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 tomorrow (and thus I=E2=80=99ll postpone [0] for after 0.4). We=E2=80=99ll= release 0.4 on Saturday 28th (or even Friday 27th if possible, since that is the real date). The announcement will include a link to the QEMU image. How does that sound? In the meantime, bug reports are welcome! Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-09/msg00137.html