Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

[Adam Van Ymeren]

Kinda late to the party here but I think a goal for 1.0 should be to ensure every  single package builds on x86_64 and/or i686 and that most substitutes are available at the time of release.

Having guix claim to have packages which then fail to build can leave a poor first impression.  It's fine for alpha/beta but I think it will be really important for 1.0 to feel as robust as possible.

I'd even say that any packages which don't build for 1.0 should be deleted or at least hidden. Maybe of channels happen we could use a stable vs unstable channels.

That's my 2 cents on 1.0 at least.

On September 4, 2018 6:55:57 PM EDT, fis trivial <address@hidden> wrote:

Ludovic Courtès writes:

 Hello Guix!

 I’ve pushed to guix/maintenance.git a list of things that IMO we should
 do or might want to do for 1.0, with the understanding that 1.0 should
 happen in 2018 (or early 2019 at the latest!).  :-)

   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org

 The list focuses on “big item” features and tasks, omitting routine bug
 fixes and improvements.  Some of these items don’t require a lot of work
 or expertise though, so hopefully there’s enough on everyone’s plate.

 Feel free to comment, volunteer, add items (but not too many!), remove
 items, promote items, etc.  Committers should feel free to edit the file
 directly in maintenance.git, especially to mark things as done.  ;-)

 Copy of the file attached below.

 Ludo’.

 PS: I’m starting the discussion but will go AFK soon after sending this
     message.  :-)

Hi Ludovic,

For near future version of GUIX, maybe 1.1, would it be possible to:

    Upgrade to latest GCC as base compiler

    Use gold linker as default

Based on experience, newer GCC and gold linker could reduce compilation time
and memory requirement dramatically.  It would be beneficial to both build
farm which have heavy load and laptop users who have very limited memory.

Thanks.