Here's an update :) >> Installer: >> - Currently, the installer invokes the parted executable for partitioning >> which is quite jarring (it looks very different). It would be nice if it >> just used the parted library.
>>But there's no good guile-parted yet. I've started hacking on one and it's >>starting to look OK but it's not done. If you are interested in that I can >>upload it somewhere (github, gitlab etc). >I would be happy to work on this. guile-gcc-unit is 80% done now (it also works on the real parted headers by now). See <https://github.com/daym/guile-gcc-unit>. (I think I'll not use records after all and just keep the result as huge trees that you can (ice-9 match) on). What it allows you is to: - invoke gcc (with a special option) on a tiny source file which only "#include"s stuff and then - feed the output to guile-gcc-unit and then - get out a Scheme list of all the C prototypes, records, enums etc that are available. The next step would be to map the generated declaration tree (output of main.scm) to the wrapper forms I posted - to have actual callable parted procedures. > - No mouse support yet. Now the installer does have mouse support :) Updated installer dev usage (branch "wip-installer-2" on <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git>): $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment guix --fallback --pure --ad-hoc guile-ncurses kbd pciutils util-linux wireless-tools [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix system installer ... press Ctrl-z when you are fed up with it :) Be careful that it doesn't nuke your system (it does ask before formatting or installing anything - so it's not that bad). Also, don't run it as root... > - We have ISO9660 CD support code so it would be quite easy to make it so > that the image file for the graphical installer (see link above) also worked > if you burned it to a CD. See threads mentioning "grub-mkrescue" on the > mainling list. 95% done. If would actually work if we came to a consensus about the volume label (it must be uppercase; see bug# 27520 in guix-patches). Also, UUID boot support is still mostly missing - same as in the non-iso9660 case. > Bootloader: > - The bootloader support code doesn't support booting Windows systems etcetc. Started to provide scaffolding on this - let's see what we decide about using <menu-entry> (see bug# 27529 in guix-patches). I don't really have a use for it so I won't go much further than providing the scaffolding. > - There's no u-boot installer yet. (There's support for using existing > u-boot but it doesn't install the u-boot bootloader itself yet. That's > because doing that safely is very difficult) Depends on the parted bindings. > Packages: > - The GUI hooks for desktop files and mime types suck. Usually, the desktop > file database is updated much too late (mostly by accident). I've looked > into fixing it but it would entail rebuilding almost all the graphical > packages we have - and I think KDE would still not do it correctly. 宋文武 fixed it :)
