Hello, Please find below project suggestions for GNU Guix for this year’s GSoC.
Thanks, Ludo’. <h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix";>Guix</a></h3> <p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free software distribution, for the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection.</p> <p><strong>Contact:</strong> [email protected] (to subscribe, see the <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix";>list-info page</a>).<br/> <strong>Mentors:</strong> <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>Ludovic Courtès</a> <h4>Supporting binary package distribution through GNUnet</h4> <p> GNU Guix provides a transparent binary/source deployment model. A server can claim: “hey, I have the binary for <tt>/nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.3</tt>!”, where the base32 string uniquely identifies a build process. If you trust that server to provide genuine binaries, then you can grab them instead of building Emacs locally. </p> <p> The “traditional model” has been to have a build farm build and serve binary packages. In that model, users trust the build farm to provide authentic binaries. </p> <p> The project aims to provide a <emph>practical</emph> decentralization distribution mechanism for binary packages, using <a href="/software/gnunet">GNUnet’s file sharing service</a>. In that model, users would be able to automatically share binaries they have built locally, and to install binaries built by other users. This is part of a broader goal of <emph>disintermediation</emph> among users, and between users and upstream software developers. </p> <p> Problems to be solved <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00085.html";>include</a> the authentication of binary packages, user privacy, and the development of a user interface that makes it trivial to contribute package build results. </p>
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