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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
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Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:
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- to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
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Guile;
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- to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
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GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
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promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system.
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Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal. Below
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is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of the Guix System Distribution.
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There will be a few 0.x releases by then to give the new features more
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exposure and testing.
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You're welcome to discuss this road map on guix-devel@gnu.org or #guix on
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Freenode!
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* Features scheduled for 1.0
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- larger & more robust build farm
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+ we need a powerful, dedicated front-end
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+ armhf-linux build machine
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+ leave Hydra in favor of 'guix publish' + custom code?
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- more OS features
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+ LVM support
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+ encrypted root
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+ configurable name service switch
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+ whole-system unit tests, using VMs
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- more service definitions
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+ mcron, postfix(?), wicd(?), etc.
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- better 'guix system'
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+ 'reconfigure' should be able to restart non-essential services
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+ support for '--list-generations' and '--delete-generations'
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- better 'guix pull'
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+ using Git to fetch the source instead of re-downloading everything
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+ build more quickly
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+ install new .mo files and new manual
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+ authentication of the Guix source: use signed commits?
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- simplified, purely declarative service list in 'operating-system'
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+ it should be possible to inspect the service instance declarations and
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settings
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- GUIs
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+ integrate guix-web?
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+ guile-ncurses installer?
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- 'guix publish'?
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* Features for later
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- complete GNU/Hurd port
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- use content-based addressing when downloading substitutes to reduce
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bandwidth requirements
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+ design nar v2 format where file contents are replaced by their hashes
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+ leverage /gnu/store/.links
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- binary origin tracking
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+ keep signatures in sqlite.db
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+ preserve signatures upon import/export
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- peer-to-peer distribution of updates (GNUnet?)
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- more deterministic builds
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+ identify & fix sources of non-determinism in builds
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+ strengthen guix-daemon containers to further increase reproducibility
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+ trusting-trust: bootstrap with different tool chains
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+ fixed-point: re-bootstrap until fixed point is reached
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+ distributed validation: compare contents of store items with others
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* resist a hydra.gnu.org compromise
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- reproducible containers: mix of 'guix environment' and 'guix system vm'
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- execute code with least privilege
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+ build containers like guix-daemon does
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+ provide a Plash-like interface in Bash
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- daemon rewritten in Guile
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- more dmd integration
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+ monitor network interfaces and start/stop events based on that
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+ include a DHCP client written in Scheme
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