TODO

   1 The Guile TODO List (actually, an -*-outline-*-)
   2
   3 * Protocol
   4
   5 These TODO items are grouped by target release version.  The first group is
   6 the "Eventually" group, which is not associated w/ any particular version.
   7 Items should be initially added to this group, and then later moved under a
   8 version upon either ownership or sponsorship.
   9
  10 Maintainers (w/ write privs) indicate ownership by `[USERNAME]'.  Use
  11 `[ACTUAL-OWNER:MAINTAINER]' to indicate sponsorship, where both elements are
  12 usernames.
  13
  14 Upon completion, simply change the "-" to a "+", but do not delete the item.
  15 At release time, the "+" entries will be deleted after review to make sure
  16 that user-visible changes are reflected in NEWS.
  17
  18
  19 * Eventually
  20
  21 - [after signal handling and threading have been fixed] remove the code
  22   corresponding to GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK and the corresponding
  23   GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK macro.
  24 - implement and integrate generational garbage collection
  25 - add POSIX thread support
  26 - factor thread support out of libguile
  27 - protect common resources using mutecis from the new interface
  28 - remove the dynamic roots
  29 - revise the fluid implementation
  30 - implement the GC thread synchronization (all threads: go to sleep!)
  31 - implementing the libguileposix threads glue library
  32 - develop better representation for GOOPS objects
  33 - write Orbit CORBA interface
  34 - [after new module system] factor out modules sort.c and random.c should be
  35   factored out into separate modules
  36 - include malloc debugging code in an optional file in libguile
  37 - fix looking up procedure names in environment in backtraces
  38 - implement srcprops using double cells
  39 - use "real" procprops
  40 - add facilities for easily debugging Scheme programs from Emacs
  41 - write good interface to Tk
  42 - write translators for additional languages
  43   - Perl
  44   - Python
  45   - TCL
  46   - Emacs Lisp
  47   - Rexx
  48 - make GDB work with Guile
  49 - use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
  50   to convert source correctly in unmemocopy
  51 - eliminate argument checking for closures
  52 - Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches
  53 - rename ice-9 to something more obvious
  54 - implement implicitly shared substrings (thread-safe, copy on write).  In
  55   this context, the concept of read-only-strings might be re-introduced to
  56   implement the symbol->string semantics of R5RS.
  57 - implement internationalized strings
  58 - revise the uniform vector implementation
  59 - make the set of error signalling functions more consistent
  60 - Fix bug reported by Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de 2001-08-31:
  61   (debug-disable 'debug) has no effect if it is the first form in ~/.guile.
  62
  63
  64 * Before releasing 1.8.0:
  65
  66 - For GOOPS: [ttn]
  67   - rewrite method cache management in C
  68   - rewrite core macros (define-class et al) in C
  69   - define C API
  70
  71 - Compile with --enable-error-on-warning without failure.  Requires a
  72   number of fixes, including num2integral.i.c and on some platforms
  73   gc_os_dep.c.  Also SCM_FIXABLE etc. will produce unavoidable
  74   warnings on some platforms with some vars as written now.  i.e. on
  75   alphas, SCM_FIXABLE(some_int) is always true.  We need more
  76   conditional compilation or similar.
  77
  78 - Move sample .gdbinit in HACKING to somewhere more appropriate (manual?).
  79
  80 - Make sure we have appropriate interface numbers for shared
  81   libraries, and that we document and use the libtool
  82   conventions. [rlb].
  83
  84 - Update the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION and README. [rlb]
  85
  86 - Start a new section of the NEWS file.
  87
  88
  89 * Before releasing 1.10.0:
  90
  91 - in boot-9.scm:
  92   remove deprecated function `feature?´.
  93
  94
  95 [TODO ends here]