Hi Rémi, Thanks for your proposal!
If you haven’t yet, please see my comments to Rohan’s proposal on the same topic: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-03/msg00319.html>. Rémi Birot-Delrue <asg...@free.fr> skribis: > The client side of the DHCPv4 protocol will be implemented: more Let’s design with the eventual DHCPv6 support in mind, and keep it as a “bonus item” for this GSoC. > The final software should be usable as a > [[http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/][dmd service]] and be part of > the Guix Software Distribution. Note that first, it should also be usable as a standalone command. Second, it should be usable as a library, typically in a dmd service. > 2. Write a battery of tests to check if it does what I want it > to do. Although I did not mention it to Rohan, I think tests are definitely a must (BTW, I think “battery of tests” is a Frenchism ;-)). Now, do you have an idea of the testing strategy? One possibly would be to use a “reference” DHCP server to talk to. I encourage you to get started with Guile + Geiser (similar to SLIME), and to look at the relevant APIs in Guile, notably for binary I/O. Also make sure to visit #guix and #guile and let us know what you’re up to! Thanks, Ludo’.
