Hi! (Removing summer-of-c...@gnu.org.)
Thanks for your proposal! Thomas Ingram <taing...@mtu.edu> skribis: > Plan: > > Before the summer starts: > > I will be reading up on the ncurses documentation and guile writing > small programs to practice and prepare. I've been programming in > scheme for six months so I'm still a relatively novice schemer, but > will work hard to improve in the following months. > > I'll look at the source code of other installers like > debian-installer, Ubiquity, and others in order to understand how the > accomplish what the do and what features they offer. This will give me > an idea of where to start and what level of features we will want. > > I will also become very familiar with the installation process of > GuixSD as it currently exists in order to better understand how to > automate the process. Also I will become more familiar with the Guix > code base in order to follow the same style and such in my own code. > > Once the summer has started: > > I will begin to write tools and a UI in ncurses to walk users through > installing GuixSD onto their machine. I'll start by getting the basic > interface and partitioning done then once that is done I will move on > to adding and setting up new users and setting the root > password/setting up sudo. > > Stretch goals: once that is completed and working well adding more > options like picking between different desktop environments. I like the goals you’re proposing for this installer. How would you go implementing it? The proposal does not explicitly mention a UI library that would be used, and how the UI code would interact with Guix and GuixSD code. I know we’re super close to the deadline, but it would be nice to have a clearer picture of this. Thanks! Ludo’.
