Hello Johannes,
thanks for presenting your perspective so promptly!
On the other end of the spectrum, the Goa SDK further evolved. Along
with mainlining the rigorous sandboxing of 3rd-party tools and build
systems, the SDK has received various usability improvements over the
year such as support for a wildcard depot user and archive-version
look-up from depot indexes.
Your work on Goa never fails to put a smile on my face because you are
not only open to suggestions, but often take them much further on your
own. The moment I tried 'goa info nfeske/pkg/a8-sdk' from inside my
goa-projects repository felt super rewarding.
Just yesternight, my oldest Son and me spent quality time together with
using the Goa SDK to bring his custom chess engine over to the
PinePhone, using the Goa testbed all the time. He hasn't even the Genode
source tree installed on this machine. Just Goa and the Genode toolchain
and he was ready to rock. Goa has come such a long and good way.
One topic that has been lingering in my mind for years is the use of
Genode as a headless VM host to replace my home server. I would love to
spend some time in 2026 for customizing Sculpt for this use case,
particularly simplifying the deployment and management of VMs, and
making the Sculpt UI and VMs accessible via VNC. Moreover, a mechanism
for creating data backups and restore VM state from these backups would
be essential for productive use. Maybe there is time for exploring
software RAID solutions in Genode.
These would be valuable features, both on a headless system and on a
desktop.
The other one is file management in Sculpt. There are quite a few
3rd-party file browser apps already waiting to be ported to Sculpt. Even
more with the prospect of a VFS plugin for the GUI session. I'd like to
pick one of them, port it to Genode and start exploring how file
interactions, such as opening a PDF with a PDF viewer, could be
orchestrated by Sculpt. I expect that the insights gained thereby are
going to contribute to Norman's vision of a capability-based desktop
environment.
There are also a few pending topics in the realm of the Goa SDK such as
the use of sequoia as a replacement for gnupg, which has been living on
an (outdated) topic branch for a while now and is waiting to be mainlined.
Good to know that my VFS-related plans will fall on fertile ground. I'm
very much looking forward to pick up the ideas on the inter-application
data exchange we brainstormed together. If you have concrete application
scenarios in mind, that's all the better.
Cheers
Norman
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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs
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