Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

So it is Summer of Code time again.

If you have ideas, let’s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment
for <http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html>.  Looks
like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year.
Anything else?

If you are an eligible student, it’s a good time to get in touch with us.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Guix under GNU???s umbrella for GSoC?

[pjotr.public12]

How good is user space support for Guix? I haven't gotten down to
trying yet, but that is on my list. If that works I could think of
many applications (Python/Ruby modules, vim modules, etc.). Or are we
forced to have a server running?

Recompilation is not a problem.

Pj.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:29:29PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> So it is Summer of Code time again.
> 
> If you have ideas, let???s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment
> for <http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html>.  Looks
> like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year.
> Anything else?
> 
> If you are an eligible student, it???s a good time to get in touch with us.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo???.
> 

Re: Guix under GNU???s umbrella for GSoC?

[Ludovic Courtès]

pjotr.public12@thebird.nl skribis:

> How good is user space support for Guix?

Guix is a purely user-space thing: a package manager, and a distribution
of user-space programs.

It requires to have the daemon running as root (see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon>),
and then Guix tools connect to it.

> I haven't gotten down to trying yet, but that is on my list. If that
> works I could think of many applications (Python/Ruby modules, vim
> modules, etc.). Or are we forced to have a server running?

Adding packages is always welcome, yes!

I don’t think that would suffice as a GSoC project though.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

[Felipe López]

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2014-02-12 15:29 GMT-05:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

> Hello!
>
> So it is Summer of Code time again.
>
> If you have ideas, let’s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment
> for <http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html>.  Looks
> like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year.
> Anything else?
>

How about the PackageKit bindings and the GUI for the package manager? [1]


>
> If you are an eligible student, it’s a good time to get in touch with us.
>

Too bad I'm not eligible.


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-02/msg00075.html

-- 
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/

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Re: Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Felipe López <felipe.lopac@gmail.com> skribis:

> 2014-02-12 15:29 GMT-05:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> So it is Summer of Code time again.
>>
>> If you have ideas, let’s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment
>> for <http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html>.  Looks
>> like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year.
>> Anything else?
>>
>
> How about the PackageKit bindings and the GUI for the package manager? [1]

Definitely!

Would someone be willing to write a short description?  That’d be
great.

Thanks,
Ludo’.