Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi!

Chris Dale <adventureonthehighseas@gmail.com> skribis:

> As you may have guessed, it is not
> my OS hacking skillz that interest me in the project, but my desire to see
> functional programming get used in practical software. I'm willing to learn
> just about anything to contribute to that goal :)

Guix is written mostly in a functional style, so hacking in there would fit.

> Broadly though, it seems like the order of business would be boot-to-Guile
> + Guix → dmd → Guile-scsh → nwm. Obviously those chunks are discrete, and
> you could chop them off at any point and still be better off than you were
> before. I could also see an argument for reversing the order of Guile-schsh
> and nwm, but as an arch user I always think of shells before window
> managers :D

The bootable thing requires some design and hacking on the core of
Guix.  So I don’t think it’d be reasonable as a summer project.  (Plus I
hope that some progress has been made by this time!)

> My ideal project result would be a bootable distro that I can configure and
> interact with in Guile Scheme. If it had a wm, that'd be the icing on the
> cake (as wms always are! :P). Thoughts?

We’d just need to come up with a more precise task list, I suppose.  :-)
I can’t really offer to mentor work on Guile-SCSH or on a WM, unless
there’s specific integration work with Guix.

WDYT?

Ludo’.