Cyril Roelandt <tipec...@gmail.com> skribis: > On 03/26/2013 06:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...] >> The mission of GNU Guix [0] is to be a package manager for, and >> distribution of, the GNU system. The distribution only works on >> GNU/Linux currently, but the goal is to support the Hurd (when it has >> source releases...), and possibly kFreeBSD. >> >> Thus, it will most probably have to restrict itself to features provided >> by all three kernels. However, it could make use of Hurd-specific >> features when running on it, such as unionfs. >> > > This makes perfect sense. Since FreeBSD is way more popular than the > Hurd, maybe students would be more likely to be willing to work on a > Guix + (k)FreeBSD project. Do we know (k)FreeBSD people who might aslo > be interested in Guix ? :p Perhaps, but that’s off-topic. >> GSoC-wise, possible projects include: >> >> • porting the distribution to GNU/Hurd (but again, I’d rather rely on >> published source tarballs of the Hurd, libc, etc. than on Git >> checkouts); > > What's so wrong with git checkouts ? Are you afraid the code might not > be very stable ? No. It’s just that, IMO, it’s the developers’ responsibility to identify milestones in their project and to give it a version number. Deferring that choice to people outside of the project may not be as fruitful. Ludo’.
