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Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix |
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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:13:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>> One more thing to consider. While you write this installer, you might
>> want to think about how we can make the installation process itself as
>> reproducible as possible. One of Guix's features is reproducible
>> software builds. Shouldn't GuixSD also make it possible to reproduce
>> the process of partitioning the system's disks, making its filesystems,
>> and configuring the system for the first time?
>
> Yeah, personally I'd like to have an emacs form which just displays
> config.scm (and stores it as a normal file) and has some inline documentation
> on what is what and maybe a treeview instead of visible S-Expression parens -
> and a validation process whether the stuff makes sense. When you exit, it
> just instantiates the system.
That’d be nice.
> ncurses actually isn't as flexible - although it has the benefit that the
> average user is familiar with how it looks.
Yeah, and it’s probably more lightweight as well.
Ludo’.