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Subject: Preparing for an alpha release
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:56:36 +0100
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Hello Guixers!

ROADMAP says Guix 0.1 will be released in December.  Given that I=E2=80=99l=
l be
on vacation starting from next week, and that there are still some
glitches that seem worth fixing, ROADMAP may well be wrong.  ;-)

Roughly, here=E2=80=99s what I=E2=80=99d like to fix before the release:

  =E2=80=A2 things related to guix-daemon, such as Andreas=E2=80=99 problem=
 with build
    users;

  =E2=80=A2 things related to command-line tools, such as options documente=
d and
    not implemented in =E2=80=98guix-package=E2=80=99;

  =E2=80=A2 use on non-NixOS distros; in particular, it would be great if we
    everything can be built in chroots lacking /bin/sh.

Anything else?

With this in mind, we should be able to release by mid-January.

It=E2=80=99s an alpha release, and there=E2=80=99ll be some features missin=
g compared to
Nix.  For instance, the daemon will not support substituters (the
mechanism that allows it to get pre-built binaries from the build farm).
Yet I think it=E2=80=99s already a useful piece of software, and it gives a=
 good
idea of where the project is heading to.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.