From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Roelandt Subject: Re: The Hurd, GNU, Guix, and GSoC Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:52:27 +0100 Message-ID: <5151FC7B.8010003@gmail.com> References: <87d2umm5vt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87d2umm5vt.fsf@gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-hurd-bounces+gnu-bug-hurd=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-hurd-bounces+gnu-bug-hurd=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org List-Id: bug-guix.gnu.org On 03/26/2013 06:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > While browsing > , I > saw references to Stow{,fs}, and an item called “Hurdish Package Manager > for the GNU System”. > > The mission of GNU Guix [0] is to be a package manager for, and > distribution of, the GNU system. The distribution only works on > GNU/Linux currently, but the goal is to support the Hurd (when it has > source releases...), and possibly kFreeBSD. > > Thus, it will most probably have to restrict itself to features provided > by all three kernels. However, it could make use of Hurd-specific > features when running on it, such as unionfs. > This makes perfect sense. Since FreeBSD is way more popular than the Hurd, maybe students would be more likely to be willing to work on a Guix + (k)FreeBSD project. Do we know (k)FreeBSD people who might aslo be interested in Guix ? :p > GSoC-wise, possible projects include: > > • porting the distribution to GNU/Hurd (but again, I’d rather rely on > published source tarballs of the Hurd, libc, etc. than on Git > checkouts); What's so wrong with git checkouts ? Are you afraid the code might not be very stable ? > > • working on the integration of Guix on the Hurd, via unionfs/stowfs > in particular. > > WDYT? Should we update the items in the ideas page to point to Guix? > Should we add new items? > I agree on the whole thing. Cyril.