From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:01:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87pow3tvkz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87si11r4md.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hhy1ej.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160210061254.GB3199@thebird.nl> <871t8khuhi.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTo3f-0007vk-Bg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:01:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTo3b-0000jd-8e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:01:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871t8khuhi.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:11:33 -0800") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Pjotr Prins writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:17:08PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> >> - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager= for >>> >> .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in De= bian >>> >> and Fedora >>> > >>> > That would be useful, and CheckInstall may be good enough for that. I >>> > don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cenough=E2=80=9D for GSoC, t= hough. WDYT? >>>=20 >>> If the student was really to package Guix for many distributions, it >>> might be enough. Especially if that student was to explore packaging >>> with upstream. Anyway, the payout could be *huge*. >> >> One thing to keep in mind is that GSoC is about programming. So, we >> have to be clear about that in the proposal. >> >>> If they finish early, I'm sure we could find other things for them to >>> do? :) >> >> Better to put a secondary job in - such as improving the web-ui or >> creating a tool for importing deb packages, or something. Students >> will come if they think the job challenging/interesting enough. >> >> Pj. > > 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 this 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.