Roadmap proposal for 3.10/4.0

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Sun Oct 15 23:23:34 UTC 2006


Maybe high on the list are tests (maybe even an automatic test procedure
mentioned on this list) and (more important) fix current defects.

Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have been thinking about the next steps. Here are a list of
> propositions for 3.10/4.0 that I would like
> to work on and welcome company. Ideally I would like to build a group
> of people that have fun to work on these items.
> We could even try to have some regular chats one day a week and FUN.
>
> I think that Squeak 10/4 should not be compatible to free us but at
> the same time it should prepare the
> coming of new assets (sophie/tweak).
>
> Here are the main actions I would like to see happening:
>
>     - be able to load Tweak
>
>     - be able to load Sophie infrastructural elements (ressource
> location...)
>     => even substitute current Squeak ones with sophie ones (Rome
> renderer)
>
>     - curve/remove Etoy/projects (without having to reload them)
>
>     - remove nebraska and others/ remove packages early in the process
>
>     - new compile method format if available else klaus fix for source
> limits
>
>     - may be newcompiler if ready
>
>     - aggressive cleans in a lot of areas
>
>     - look at Pavel overrides problems
>     => ideally be able to use Pavel image as a basis for 10/4
>
>     - Use tool builder (looking at the tool plus) and change the
> current tools
>     (the ones that deserve migration)
>
>     - more tests
>
>     - may be using MC2 if ready
>
>     - better integration of AST and refactoring support
>
> So if you want to help there on a regular basis or on specific items
> please say it
>
> Stef
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