Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 28 juin 2019 00:33:12 GMT+02:00, swedebugia <address@hidden> a écrit :
>On 2019-06-27 21:02, Alex Griffin wrote:
>> 
>> ** TODO better Node.js packaging and tooling
>
>This seem to have gotten stuck. But I heard something about a 
>guile-semver and also we need to handle circular dependencies better in
>
>guix to make it easier to discover and mitigate them.
>
>Compared to the whole expat/JS community Guix is still a very small 
>project. The bootstrap problems will probably take years to complete 
>with the current pace/manpower/interest.
>
>Maybe we should propose The GNU Project to create and seek funding for
>a 
>"fix JS (bootstrap)" campaign? Compilers will need to be written 
>according to Julien (like rustc).

We're good with nust now :). A big issue is coffeescript and probably most of 
the languages that compile to javascript.

>
>> *** TODO package important Icecat and Ungoogled-Chromium extensions.
>This is a pain point because IceCat steers users away from Firefox
>Add-ons and Ungoogled-Chromium completely disallows installing from
>Chrome Web Store.
>
>Actually currently our Chrome does not support add-ons at all. See bug 
>#35709