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3 #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
5 Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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11 The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:
13 - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
16 - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
17 GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
18 promotion and tight integration of GNU components.
20 This documents lists tentative milestones toward these goals.
23 * GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: Dec. 2012)
25 ** basic package management facilities
27 Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search.
29 ** self-contained user-land distribution
31 - GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64
32 - ~100 non-X11 packages
34 ** maybe integrated Nix code
36 * GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013
38 ** improved package management features
40 - user-environment hooks
41 - sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package
44 ** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users
45 ** support for fetching pre-built binaries
47 - this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance
49 ** auto-update facility available for GNU packages
56 * GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013
58 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro
59 ** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS
61 * GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release)
63 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer
64 ** usable for a range of hacker-style uses