Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > Pjotr Prins writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:17:08PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> >> - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for >>> >> .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian >>> >> and Fedora >>> > >>> > That would be useful, and CheckInstall may be good enough for that. I >>> > don’t think it’s “enough” for GSoC, though. WDYT? >>> >>> If the student was really to package Guix for many distributions, it >>> might be enough. Especially if that student was to explore packaging >>> with upstream. Anyway, the payout could be *huge*. >> >> One thing to keep in mind is that GSoC is about programming. So, we >> have to be clear about that in the proposal. >> >>> If they finish early, I'm sure we could find other things for them to >>> do? :) >> >> Better to put a secondary job in - such as improving the web-ui or >> creating a tool for importing deb packages, or something. Students >> will come if they think the job challenging/interesting enough. >> >> Pj. > > So, while we're on the topic of hopes and dreams that I might > *personally* love to see solved through GSoC, but maybe people will be > like "That's not enough of a GSoC programming project"....
We could frame it in terms of programming: providing a Guix API for the creation of Debian etc. packages. There is (used to be?) something in Nixpkgs that produces a derivation to build stuff in a Debian VM, build the .deb with CheckInstall, and return that .deb as the derivation’s output. Something like this is definitely programming, and possibly fun as well. :-) Could you maybe add more details for this one on the wiki page? > npm packaging and importer. Even better: enough npm packaging and > importing to where we package pump.io :) Woow, why not! Point the candidate to your blog post on that topic. ;-) Ludo’.
