From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: The Hurd, GNU, Guix, and GSoC Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:41:48 +0100 Message-ID: <871ub1yjub.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d2umm5vt.fsf@gnu.org> <5151FC7B.8010003@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 ([208.118.235.92]:36268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKagz-00049Q-Fn for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:42:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKagx-0006eV-O0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:42:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5151FC7B.8010003@gmail.com> (Cyril Roelandt's message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:52:27 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Cyril Roelandt Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org Cyril Roelandt skribis: > On 03/26/2013 06:24 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: [...] >> 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 Perhaps, but that=E2=80=99s off-topic. >> GSoC-wise, possible projects include: >> >> =E2=80=A2 porting the distribution to GNU/Hurd (but again, I=E2=80=99= 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 ? No. It=E2=80=99s just that, IMO, it=E2=80=99s the developers=E2=80=99 resp= onsibility to identify milestones in their project and to give it a version number. Deferring that choice to people outside of the project may not be as fruitful. Ludo=E2=80=99.