Re: Toward 0.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> I think we should plan for 0.2 within a month or so.  Here are the
> important features I’d like to see in:
>
>   • ‘guix pull’ (see TODO; I’ve started working on that);
>
>   • a simple “binary substituter”, which would allow pre-built binaries
>     to be transparently downloaded from trusted source, such as
>     hydra.gnu.org (I also have unfinished code locally);
>
>   • core updates
>
>     - install glibc locale data;
>     - install glibc timezone data;
>     - merge mips64 branch;
>     - items under “guix build utils” in TODO;
>     - core software updates;

So!  Of these items, the remaining blocker is “core software updates”,
that is upgrading GCC, Binutils, etc.  I’m happy to look into it, but
even happier if somebody else does.  :-)

I think mips64 support (and cross-compilation) will be for 0.3, right?

I’ll look into tzdata, but that should be simple.

Comments?

Ludo’.