Hi,
As a follow up to previous meetup we are meeting up this weekend (saturday) to discuss some of the ideas to start hacking on Hurd. The place can be cubbon park itself if anyone can bring a laptop with qemu. Otherwise we will have to meet in a place where we can get a system (any college labs). We can have an intro to Hurd session if students turn up.
Well these are the ideas I would like to work on
1. Filesystem as package manager
No need for a separate database and file format for packages.
/packages/meta - contains information about the available packages like dependencies /packages/binary - contains binary files from a package /packages/source - source code files
unionfs will give a merged view of these package files in the / like /bin /lib /var ...
so if you install a package from source like
./configure --prefix=/packages/binary/emacs ; make; make install will have all the binary files in /packages/binary/emacs direcory and it will be immediately available to everyone and it is recognised by the packaging system wothout any other commands or configuration
to check whether you have emacs installed
ls /packages/binary/emacs is enough to update the metadata rsync can be used
More details has to be thought of and finalised.
2. Filesystem as email client.
Use fetchmail to get email from server and use mboxfs to extract the email info. Use any editor be it vi, emacs or gedit to read.
To write a mail we will use a write only file system. You just drag and drop to a folder and the mail is sent. We can have this icon in the panel (the traditional mail box makes sense here, you post it to the box and it is gone).
3. Flexible backends for /etc/passwd file.
Use mysql, pgsql, ldap ... for authentication and create a translator for /etc/passwd so than zero configuration is required for all other programmes.
If you have an idea, we can discuss that as well
Happy Hacking Praveen
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Praveen A wrote:
As a follow up to previous meetup we are meeting up this weekend (saturday) to discuss some of the ideas to start hacking on Hurd. The place can be cubbon park itself if anyone can bring a laptop with qemu. Otherwise we will have to meet in a place where we can get a system (any college labs). We can have an intro to Hurd session if students turn up.
:((
All this happens every time I am away, very consistently. Waaaah !
- Sajith.