@@ 1,5 1,8 @@
-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
+#+TITLE: What's left to do?
+#+STARTUP: content hidestars
+
Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
@@ 35,18 38,6 @@ they trust.
Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
-* infrastructure
-
-** have a Hydra instance build Guix packages
-
-[[http://nixos.org/hydra/][Hydra]] is a continuous integration tool based on Nix. It now has
-[[https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/commit/f27ae1d5663680400cb99cfb898970f34d8d21be][Guile/Guix support]], which allows “build recipes” written in Guile using
-Guix to be used directly on Hydra.
-
-For a start, we may use the instance at hydra.nixos.org, generously
-provided by TU Delft. However, in the future, we may want to setup our
-own instance at gnu.org.
-
* user interface
** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
@@ 66,12 57,6 @@ write a new one based on it, as opposed to actually using it.
* extend <package>
-** add support for ‘search-paths’
-
-This should be passed to the build system, to extend package-specific
-search path environment variables–like ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’, ‘PERL5LIB’,
-etc.
-
** add a ‘user-environment-hook’
This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
@@ 91,15 76,13 @@ create a new ‘dir’.
("i3" ,p3)))
#+END_SRC
-* synchronize package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] and/or the Womb
+* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or 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.
-The [[./guix/gnu-maintenance.scm][Womb]] also contains synopses for all the GNU packages.
-
* support cross-compilation
Implement ‘package-cross-derivation’, and add the corresponding code in
@@ 145,10 128,9 @@ etc.
** add ‘--list-generations’, and ‘--delete-generations’
* guix build utils
-** Add equivalent to Nixpkgs's ‘wrapProgram’
** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
-** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath, possibly using [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
+** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild