From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: Looking to contribute Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:20:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20170705152024.4dfde1c5@scratchpost.org> References: <20170627221608.A23B52013B@smtp.hushmail.com> <20170628154943.36021286@scratchpost.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]:36099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSkEM-0008D3-8o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:20:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSkEJ-0004UB-2R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:20:34 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:54630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSkEI-0004SV-RP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:20:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170628154943.36021286@scratchpost.org> 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Here's an update :) >> Installer: >> - Currently, the installer invokes the parted executable for partitionin= g which is quite jarring (it looks very different). It would be nice if it= just used the parted library. >>But there's no good guile-parted yet. I've started hacking on one and it= 's starting to look OK but it's not done. If you are interested in that I = can upload it somewhere (github, gitlab etc). >I would be happy to work on this. guile-gcc-unit is 80% done now (it also works on the real parted headers by= now). See . (I think I'll not us= e records after all and just keep the result as huge trees that you can (ic= e-9 match) on). What it allows you is to: - invoke gcc (with a special option) on a tiny source file which only "#inc= lude"s stuff and then - feed the output to guile-gcc-unit and then - get out a Scheme list of all the C prototypes, records, enums etc that ar= e available. The next step would be to map the generated declaration tree (output of mai= n.scm) to the wrapper forms I posted - to have actual callable parted proce= dures. > - No mouse support yet. Now the installer does have mouse support :) Updated installer dev usage (branch "wip-installer-2" on ): $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment guix --fallback --pure --ad-hoc guile-ncu= rses kbd pciutils util-linux wireless-tools [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix system installer ... press Ctrl-z when you are fed up with it :) Be careful that it doesn't nuke your system (it does ask before formatting = or installing anything - so it's not that bad). Also, don't run it as root... > - We have ISO9660 CD support code so it would be quite easy to make it so= that the image file for the graphical installer (see link above) also work= ed if you burned it to a CD. See threads mentioning "grub-mkrescue" on the= mainling list. 95% done. If would actually work if we came to a consensus about the volum= e label (it must be uppercase; see bug# 27520 in guix-patches). Also, UUID= boot support is still mostly missing - same as in the non-iso9660 case. > Bootloader: > - The bootloader support code doesn't support booting Windows systems etc= etc. Started to provide scaffolding on this - let's see what we decide about usi= ng (see bug# 27529 in guix-patches). I don't really have a us= e for it so I won't go much further than providing the scaffolding. > - There's no u-boot installer yet. (There's support for using existing u= -boot but it doesn't install the u-boot bootloader itself yet. That's beca= use doing that safely is very difficult) Depends on the parted bindings. > Packages: > - The GUI hooks for desktop files and mime types suck. Usually, the desk= top file database is updated much too late (mostly by accident). I've look= ed into fixing it but it would entail rebuilding almost all the graphical p= ackages we have - and I think KDE would still not do it correctly. =E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6 fixed it :)