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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 33 insertions, 40 deletions
@@ -11,23 +11,6 @@ Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> * integrate needed Nix code -** Remove dependency on OpenSSL - -The ‘openssl’ command-line tool is used in libstore to sign store paths -to be exported, and to check such signatures. The signing keys are -usually in /etc/nix/signing-key.{pub,sec}. They are a PKCS#8-encoded -X.509 SubjectPublicKeyInfo. These can be decoded with the [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnutls/2012-12/msg00012.html][C API of -GnuTLS]], but not yet with its Guile bindings. There’s also -‘gnutls_privkey_sign_data’ to sign, and related functions. - - -** Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server - -Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests. -Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also -reply to requests for .narinfo.sig. -Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service. - ** MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or @@ -40,6 +23,13 @@ Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix. +* Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server + +Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests. +Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also +reply to requests for .narinfo.sig. +Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service. + * user interface ** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end @@ -48,17 +38,6 @@ package.el is quite monolithic, but we may be able to reuse/extend ** add guile-ncurses interface -* extend <origin> -** add OpenPGP signatures: - - (origin - (method http-fetch) - (uri "http://.../foo.tgz") - (signature-uri (string-append uri ".sig")) - (signer-openpgp-fingerprint "...")) - -** allow <origin> to be a derivation/package or a file - * extend <package> ** add ‘recommends’ field @@ -84,28 +63,45 @@ create a new ‘dir’. ("i3" ,p3))) #+END_SRC +* MAYBE use HOP-like escapes to refer to inputs in build-side code + +Instead of doing things like: + +#+BEGIN_SRC scheme + (inputs `(("foo" ,foo))) + (arguments '(#:configure-flags + (list (string-append "--with-foo=" + (assoc-ref %build-inputs "foo"))))) +#+END_SRC + +Allow things like: + +#+BEGIN_SRC scheme + (inputs (list foo)) + (arguments ~(#:configure-flags + (list (string-append "--with-foo=" $foo)))) + +#+END_SRC + +... where '~' is 'build-quote' and '$' is 'build-unquote'. Better yet, +automatically compute the list of references of an expression passed to +'derivation-expression'. + +Use a [[http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/2011/09/scheme-syntax-is-monad.html][monad]] for the syntax. -* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] +* synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be dumped from the FSD: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . We could periodically synchronize with that. -See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-04/msg00120.html for info -on how to synchronize with GSRC's descriptions. - * add a guildhall build system The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall recipes. -* build-expression->derivation: define `%system' in the builder - -Would allow build expressions to have system-dependent code, like -`glibc-dynamic-linker'. - * add ‘allowed-references’ in <package> [[file:~/src/nix/src/libstore/build.cc::if%20(drv.env.find("allowedReferences")%20!%3D%20drv.env.end())%20{][See how Nix implements that internally]]. @@ -126,9 +122,6 @@ run when that is defined. Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully locally-built) copy. -* guix package - -** add ‘--list-generations’, and ‘--delete-generations’ * guix build utils ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name |