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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

>> So, while we're on the topic of hopes and dreams that I might
>> *personally* love to see solved through GSoC, but maybe people will be
>> like "That's not enough of a GSoC programming project"....
>
> We could frame it in terms of programming: providing a Guix API for the
> creation of Debian etc. packages.
>
> There is (used to be?) something in Nixpkgs that produces a derivation
> to build stuff in a Debian VM, build the .deb with CheckInstall, and
> return that .deb as the derivation=E2=80=99s output.  Something like th=
is is
> definitely programming, and possibly fun as well.  :-)
>
> Could you maybe add more details for this one on the wiki page?
>
>> npm packaging and importer.  Even better: enough npm packaging and
>> importing to where we package pump.io :)
>
> Woow, why not!  Point the candidate to your blog post on that topic.
> ;-)
>
> Ludo=E2=80=99.

Okay, I updated the page:

  https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2016