From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Dale Subject: Google Summer of Code project concepts Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:08:48 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8fb207a49ada0604d9e0af77 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPKFW-00066o-TM for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:09:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPKFR-0000Hg-GE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:09:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::230]:59886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPKFR-0000Gg-Bi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:09:09 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id er7so6288599obc.21 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:09:08 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org --e89a8fb207a49ada0604d9e0af77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello Guix community! I just learned about Guix from the GNU Google Summer of Code project page, and I'm very interested in the idea of a fully functional package manager. That one of the project ideas was bundling the distribution with a window manager sparked in me the idea to bundle it with a fully-functional window manager. I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice, due to my interest in Haskell, and emailed Ludo to this effect. He told me it might be more beneficial to use a natively Guile Scheme wm, which he observed are few, not very mature, and generally stagnant already. Upon looking around further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100% Common Lisp, so I propose a compromise: adapt and package stumpwm for use with Guile Scheme and Guix, and then use the resulting environment to have a free software distribution configurable primarily in Guile Scheme. I chose stumpwm because I prefer tiling managers to conventional ones, though I would respect if the view of the crowd was that conventional wms would be more useful to have for the distro - there are Common Lisp (and even Guile, sort of) alternatives in the conventional realm. Thank you in advance for all of your input! [Chris] Dale --e89a8fb207a49ada0604d9e0af77 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello Guix community!

I just learned about Guix from the GNU Google Summer of Code pr= oject page, and I'm very interested in the idea of a fully functional p= ackage manager. That one of the project ideas was bundling the distribution= with a window manager sparked in me the idea to bundle it with a fully-fun= ctional window manager. I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice,= due to my interest in Haskell, and emailed Ludo to this effect. He told me= it might be more beneficial to use a natively Guile Scheme wm, which he ob= served are few, not very mature, and generally stagnant already. Upon looki= ng around further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100% Common Lisp, = so I propose a compromise: adapt and package stumpwm for use with Guile Sch= eme and Guix, and then use the resulting environment to have =A0a free soft= ware distribution configurable primarily in Guile Scheme.

I chose stumpwm because I prefer tiling managers = to conventional ones, though I would respect if the view of the crowd was t= hat conventional wms would be more useful to have for the distro - there ar= e Common Lisp (and even Guile, sort of) alternatives in the conventional re= alm.

Thank you in advance for all of your input!=

[Chris] Dale
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