Hello everyone, I don't have suggestions for devs, but I would like to share my goals for 2015 and solicit some suggestions on how to prioritize my own work.
This summer I started converting the Make build system to a Nix build system, which seemed dubious at times to even me, but I have reached a point where I think things will get exciting. I would like to emphasize that this isn't a criticism of the current system, I just find the properties of Nix very interesting and this is an effort to fold the Genode into the way I have been composing my legacy OS. I have not been modifying any Genode code, and I have no intentions of writing new components without Make rules. I have a few directions that I could and would like to go with this, and I'd like to know which path of investigation sounds most interesting to any of you. * Formally benchmark Nix performance against Make. * Generate binary packages using existing Nix continuous integration tools and Make rules for fetching them. * Adapt the Nix packages collection to build its existing packages for Noux. This similar to how packages may be built for Darwin or BSD, I would abort converting Make rules for anything not required for bootstrapping a Noux toolchain. * Work towards running virtualizing instances of NixOS, building the Genode host and the NixOS guest concurrently. I have had success related to virtualizing, I have managed to integrate my build expressions with the NixOS system expression on my host machine, installing a NOVA scenario to my boot partition and GRUB menu. One could obviously do this with a set of scripts calling make, but in this way the Genode components are treated as system dependencies just as my linux host would treat its system services. I think the next logical step in this line of thought would be to build my Linux host system as an image optimized for Seoul, but I am traveling at the moment and virtualizing Seoul scenarios has been slow going with only a single laptop. Emery (I apologize if this email does not thread properly.)[1] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
