That sounds good. I have one suggestion to add to the roadmap: Nitpicker
windows should be selectable by something other than the window
decorations. It's a small issue, but always having to click on the tops of
windows to select them is rather frustrating.
On Dec 30, 2014 5:23 AM, "Norman Feske" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Emery,
>
> thank you for sharing your plans! Your exploration of combining Genode
> with Nix is very interesting. It is great to learn that you will go
> further in this direction. You asked about feedback, so here is mine. :-)
>
> > * Formally benchmark Nix performance against Make.
>
> Personally, I do not perceive the build performance as a pressing issue
> (apart from Qt5 + Webkit). Hence, I would not spend too much effort on
> benchmarking but rather focus on practical aspects.
>
> > * Generate binary packages using existing Nix continuous integration
> tools
> > and Make rules for fetching them.
>
> This is very interesting, in particular in the light of Wolfgang's
> email. I still wonder what a Genode "package" actually is. Honestly, I
> cannot answer this question right away. I hope that throughout 2015, it
> will become more clear. Your line of work could be a valuable
> contribution here.
>
> > * 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.
>
> Even though that sounds intriguing at the first glance, I cannot say
> that I regard the porting of Noux packages as a big hurdle right now. So
> far, my attempts to port software packages that use the GNU build system
> went actually fairly smooth. Personally, I am not so much interested in
> a big volume of packages. In my day to day work, only a few packages are
> actually used (the most significant gap in this respect is a proper
> LaTeX environment). While porting software to Noux, the most prominent
> stumbling blocks use to be functionalities missing from our C runtime
> (e.g., if a program relies on Unix signals), performance bottlenecks, or
> limitations of our terminal (e.g., lack of support for ANSI pseudo
> graphics). None of those issues will go away with the switch of Noux
> packages to Nix.
>
> > * 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.
>
> That looks interesting and very much in line with the plans I laid out
> in my initial posting. But you approach the idea from a different angle.
> I am curious where this development is heading.
>
> As another idea, have you considered to port Nix to Noux? That would
> further blur the line between NixOS and Genode.
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
>
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