l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > First, I’d like to release 0.4 by (or on) GNU’s 30th birthday, which is > on Sep. 28th [0]. On the 28th, I’d also like to have a bootable QEMU > image built with Guix, featuring at least the init system (dmd), a > console login, and bare utilities. > > What I would really like to see in 0.4: > > • Guix must be usable with the old Guile 2.0.5, since that’s what some > distros provide. At the GHM I realized that some people had weird > bugs with that Guile, notably in the substituter. I fixed a couple > of bugs, but there may be others around. > > So, to 2.0.5 users: please run ‘make check’, use Guix and in > particular the substituter, and report bugs! > > • Packages: as already discussed, more packages, anything that makes > the distro more useful (having Git is a must.) > A package a day keeps the competition away. ;-) > > • Core updates: in particular libc 2.18. Possibly switch to GCC 4.8 > as the default compiler. > > • APIs: new or extended APIs for building stand-alone images. I’ve > been looking into that recently, notably with the initrd stuff. > > • New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for > ‘guix package’. > > • Manual: improve as we see fit; notably add a section on font usage > for X applications.
I think we’re almost there, so here’s a plan: we’ll merge ‘core-updates’ tomorrow (and thus I’ll postpone [0] for after 0.4). We’ll release 0.4 on Saturday 28th (or even Friday 27th if possible, since that is the real date). The announcement will include a link to the QEMU image. How does that sound? In the meantime, bug reports are welcome! Thanks, Ludo’. [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-09/msg00137.html