@@ 48,17 48,6 @@ 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 73,45 @@ create a new ‘dir’.
("i3" ,p3)))
#+END_SRC
+* MAYBE use HOP-like escapes to refer to inputs in build-side code
-* synchronize package descriptions with GSRC and/or the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
+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 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]].
@@ 126,9 132,6 @@ 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