Ludovic Courtès writes: >> 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’.
Okay, I updated the page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2016
