From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, GNU Summer Of Code workers <summer-of-code@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:13:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8lpuvt9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323125356.1624e453@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:53:56 +0100")
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> One more thing to consider. While you write this installer, you might
>> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as
>> reproducible as possible. One of Guix's features is reproducible
>> software builds. Shouldn't GuixSD also make it possible to reproduce
>> the process of partitioning the system's disks, making its filesystems,
>> and configuring the system for the first time?
>
> Yeah, personally I'd like to have an emacs form which just displays config.scm (and stores it as a normal file) and has some inline documentation on what is what and maybe a treeview instead of visible S-Expression parens - and a validation process whether the stuff makes sense. When you exit, it just instantiates the system.
That’d be nice.
> ncurses actually isn't as flexible - although it has the benefit that the average user is familiar with how it looks.
Yeah, and it’s probably more lightweight as well.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 20:45 [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix Thomas Ingram
2016-03-23 8:51 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-23 11:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-23 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 14:33 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-23 11:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-23 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-23 22:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-25 13:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 15:48 ` Thomas Ingram
2016-03-26 11:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-27 6:50 ` Thomas Ingram
2016-03-27 18:30 ` myglc2
2016-03-27 20:48 ` Jookia
2016-03-27 22:53 ` myglc2
2016-03-28 16:28 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-04-01 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-27 23:25 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-28 6:20 ` Chris Marusich
2016-04-01 12:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19 17:49 ` myglc2
2016-04-01 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:19 ` myglc2
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