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3 #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
5 Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 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–the GNU system.
20 This document lists milestones toward these goals.
22 The timeline below was written at the end of Dec. 2012. An updated and more
23 detailed list of the remaining milestones was posted at
24 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00120.html .
26 The actual timeline was of course slightly different than initially
27 envisioned, and so was the feature set–things like cross-compilation support
28 and the MIPS64 port were not planned back then. See the news section at
29 http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ and ‘NEWS’ for the release history.
31 * GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: Dec. 2012)
33 ** basic package management facilities
35 Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search.
37 ** self-contained user-land distribution
39 - GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64
40 - ~100 non-X11 packages
42 ** maybe integrated Nix code
44 * GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013
46 ** improved package management features
48 - user-environment hooks
49 - sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package
52 ** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users
53 ** support for fetching pre-built binaries
55 - this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance
57 ** auto-update facility available for GNU packages
64 * GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013
66 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro
67 ** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS
69 * GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release)
71 ** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer
72 ** usable for a range of hacker-style uses