From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Planning for the next release Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 17:25:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3u2qepq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> <87fugbvkdb.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2zusk6b.fsf@elephly.net> 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]:60994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9CS7-0005qt-CI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 11:26:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9CS4-0002q5-1o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 11:25:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r2zusk6b.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 12 May 2017 07:45:00 +0200") 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" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: [...] >> With UEFI (almost) ready, Guile 2.2 in the house, and =E2=80=9Cmake rele= ase=E2=80=9D, >> should we aim for next week (like Wed. 17th)? Can we focus on polishing >> the remaining bits and testing? >> >> If the schedule turns out to be too tight, we could move to the week >> after. > > I=E2=80=99d like to merge wip-installer, but not start it by default. It= would > be a shame to see the branch bit-rot. I agree we shouldn=E2=80=99t let it bitrot. Earlier I suggested postponing= it though, because we wouldn=E2=80=99t have time to test it (nobody is current= ly working on it AFAIK): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00491.html WDYT? > We also need to fix the glibc on hurd (the patch for i686 should not be > applied there), but I haven=E2=80=99t been able to reproduce the failure = on > hydra. https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2036383/nixlog/1/raw Cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd from x86_64-linux-gnu works: $ guix build sed --target=3Di586-pc-gnu /gnu/store/rd2jngvxbyk5a1yy2ysd0d3wwkbw0pmc-sed-4.4 It would be better to fix cross builds from i686 as well. I can take a look but I wouldn=E2=80=99t consider it a blocker. Thoughts? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.