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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
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Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:
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- to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
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Guile;
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- to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
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GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
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promotion and tight integration of GNU components.
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This documents lists tentative milestones toward these goals.
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* GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: Dec. 2012)
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** basic package management facilities
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Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search.
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** self-contained user-land distribution
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- GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64
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- ~100 non-X11 packages
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** maybe integrated Nix code
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* GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013
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** improved package management features
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- user-environment hooks
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- sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package
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priorities, etc.)
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** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users
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** support for fetching pre-built binaries
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- this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance
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** auto-update facility available for GNU packages
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** more packages
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- Xorg
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- Emacs
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* GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013
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** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro
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** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS
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* GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release)
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** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer
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** usable for a range of hacker-style uses
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