Re: Goals for 0.4

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> 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.
>
> That would be great.  Because that’s the first thing people ask (on IRC,
> for instance).

Yeah, agreed.

>> • New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for
>>   ‘guix package’.
>
> I’m willing to help with this one.
>
>> • MIPS64/N64 support: the bootstrap tarballs are now all available
>>   through cross-compilation from x86_64, so it’s “just” a matter of
>>   feeding them in bootstrap.scm and trying out.
>
> I’m also interested in this one.

OK, your help is welcome on both fronts!

Ludo’.