Hello all,
I am a prospective Google Summer of Code student who would like to
work on improving the Guix importer system and writing some new ones
for the Go Modules and Arch Linux PKGBUILD formats.
I admit that I am a rather late with this, but the last month has been
a bit more hectic than we'd
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> myglc2 skribis:
>
>> Thomas Ingram writes:
>>
>>> On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
>>
>> Wow,
Christopher Allan Webber skribis:
> I've been greatly inspired by how Blender has turned artists into
> programmers. You have all sorts of buttons and an interface that's
> optimized around artists, but if you hover over a button, the tooltip
> displays not only a textual description, but also w
myglc2 skribis:
> Thomas Ingram writes:
>
>> On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
>>> something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
>
> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
I thi
Thomas Ingram skribis:
> On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
>> something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
>>
>> I don’t know how this could translate in the design of the tool.
>> Perhaps
myglc2 writes:
> Jookia <166...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
>>> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
>>
>> I think what Ludovic's getting at is that we'd rather have people know their
>> tools and experiment, much like Emacs.
>
> OK.
Leo Famulari writes:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
>> Thomas Ingram writes:
>>
>> > On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> >> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
>> >> something that hides everything and turns people into
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
> Thomas Ingram writes:
>
> > On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
> >> something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
>
> Wow, Ludo, w
Jookia <166...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
>> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
>
> I think what Ludovic's getting at is that we'd rather have people know their
> tools and experiment, much like Emacs.
OK. But there is a huge communi
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:30:22PM -0400, myglc2 wrote:
> Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
I think what Ludovic's getting at is that we'd rather have people know their
tools and experiment, much like Emacs.
Thomas Ingram writes:
> On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
>> something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
Wow, Ludo, what do you have against "end users"?
>> I don’t know how this could t
On 03/26/2016 07:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”
I don’t know how this could translate in the design of the tool.
Perhaps showing the ‘operating-system’ declarat
Thomas Ingram skribis:
> On 03/25/2016 09:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 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 Gu
Thomas Ingram writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a big fan of the project and I'd like to help write an installer
> for GuixSD this summer for GSoC I'm including a plain text version of
> my draft proposal I'm about so submit to the GNU GSoC page. Any
> feedback or suggestions would be very helpful.
>
> So
On 03/25/2016 09:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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 think most of the in
Hi!
(Removing summer-of-c...@gnu.org.)
Thanks for your proposal!
Thomas Ingram 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
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Ingram writes:
> I'm a big fan of the project and I'd like to help write an installer
> for GuixSD this summer for GSoC I'm including a plain text version of
> my draft proposal I'm about so submit to the GNU GSoC page.
Sounds great!
> Deliverables:
>
> A nice ncurses installe
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Chris Marusich writes:
>
>>> Partitioning will allow for custom setups and also offer several
>>> default "most common" options such as:
>>>
>>> Simple all in one big partition on one disk
>>> Separate root and home
>>> LVM/LVM encrypted (this would probably be mor
Danny Milosavljevic skribis:
>> One more thing to consider. While you write this installer, you might
>> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as
>> reproducible as possible. One of Guix's features is reproducible
>> software builds. Shouldn't GuixSD also make it
Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
> I like that idea. It would be great if we could pass a kernel parameter
> at boot time to initialise the system from a given “operating-system”
> configuration file. Kickstart is very convenient in this manner, but it
> relies on terrible macros that nobody seems to re
> One more thing to consider. While you write this installer, you might
> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as
> reproducible as possible. One of Guix's features is reproducible
> software builds. Shouldn't GuixSD also make it possible to reproduce
> the process
Chris Marusich writes:
>> Partitioning will allow for custom setups and also offer several
>> default "most common" options such as:
>>
>> Simple all in one big partition on one disk
>> Separate root and home
>> LVM/LVM encrypted (this would probably be more difficult to add)
>
> Is this d
Thomas Ingram writes:
> Project: Installer Wizard for GuixSD
Sounds useful! I have a some shell scripts that I use to "reproducibly"
install GuixSD on my laptops, but they're not very elegant at the
moment, and they hard-code marusich-specific things in places. If you'd
like to see them, I'd b
Hello,
I'm a big fan of the project and I'd like to help write an installer for
GuixSD this summer for GSoC I'm including a plain text version of my
draft proposal I'm about so submit to the GNU GSoC page. Any feedback or
suggestions would be very helpful.
Sorry this comes so late in the app
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