Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

>> One more thing to consider.  While you write this installer, you might
>> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as
>> reproducible as possible.  One of Guix's features is reproducible
>> software builds.  Shouldn't GuixSD also make it possible to reproduce
>> the process of partitioning the system's disks, making its filesystems,
>> and configuring the system for the first time?
>
> Yeah, personally I'd like to have an emacs form which just displays 
> config.scm (and stores it as a normal file) and has some inline documentation 
> on what is what and maybe a treeview instead of visible S-Expression parens - 
> and a validation process whether the stuff makes sense. When you exit, it 
> just instantiates the system.

That’d be nice.

> ncurses actually isn't as flexible - although it has the benefit that the 
> average user is familiar with how it looks.

Yeah, and it’s probably more lightweight as well.

Ludo’.