-Needed before release
-
-* Add facilities for debugging Scheme programs.
-
-Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> is working on this.
-
-Desired later on
-
-* Add a convenient facility for running a pipeline of processes
-with redirections. Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
-is working on this.
-
-* Make it possible to link Guile and TK without using libtcl.a, by
-providing Guile-based replacements for the libtcl.a functions that TK
-requires.
-
-* Make ordinary lambda functions work as callbacks for Tk;
-eliminate the need for tcl-lambda.
-
-* Translators for additional languages; in particular, Perl, Python,
-TCL, Emacs Lisp, and Rexx.
-
-* Clean up declarations of C functions to use a PROTO macro
-for conditional prototypes, instead of explicit conditionals.
-
-* A package for time conversions and formatting.
+-*-text-*-
+
+These TODO items are grouped by target release version. The first group is
+the "Eventually" group, which is not associated w/ any particular version.
+Move these items under a version upon completion (or better yet, ownership).
+
+Upon completion, simply change the "-" to a "+", but do not delete the item.
+At release time, the "+" entries will be deleted after review to make sure
+that user-visible changes are reflected in NEWS (and that proper credit is
+applied :-).
+
+Ownership is indicated by `[USERNAME]'. Maintainers (w/ write privs) can
+indicate sponsorship by `[ACTUAL-OWNER:MAINTAINER]', where both elements are
+usernames.
+
+See also file HACKING.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+=== Eventually:
+
+- deprecate `read-only-string?'
+- [after signal handling and threading have been fixed] remove the code
+ corresponding to GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK and the corresponding
+ GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK macro.
+- implement and integrate generational garbage collection
+- add POSIX thread support
+- factor thread support out of libguile
+- protect common resources using mutecis from the new interface
+- remove the dynamic roots
+- revise the fluid implementation
+- implement the GC thread synchronization (all threads: go to sleep!)
+- implementing the libguileposix threads glue library
+- GOOPS
+ - develop better representation for GOOPS objects
+ - rewrite method cache management in C
+ - rewrite core macros (define-class et al) in C
+ - define C API
+- write Orbit CORBA interface
+- [after new module system] factor out modules sort.c and random.c should be
+ factored out into separate modules
+- include malloc debugging code in an optional file in libguile
+- fix looking up procedure names in environment in backtraces
+- implement srcprops using double cells
+- use "real" procprops
+- add facilities for easily debugging Scheme programs from Emacs
+- write good interface to Tk
+- write translators for additional languages
+ - Perl
+ - Python
+ - TCL
+ - Emacs Lisp
+ - Rexx
+- make GDB work with Guile
+- use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
+ to convert source correctly in unmemocopy
+- eliminate argument checking for closures
+- Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches
+
+=== Before releasing 1.8.0:
+
+- Make sure we have appropriate interface numbers for shared
+ libraries, and that we document and use the libtool
+ conventions. [rlb].
+
+- Update the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION and README. [rlb]
+
+- Start a new section of the NEWS file.
+
+- Start a new THANKS file.
+
+- remove deprecated functions scm_read_0str, scm_eval_0str.
+
+- remove deprecated "scm_*_t" type names in libguile.h.
+
+- remove re-exporting behaviour of `export'.
+ in boot-9.scm, remove begin-deprecated part of `module-export!'
+ in format.scm, remove kluge at top
+ in srfi-13.scm, likewise
+ in srfi-1.scm, likewise
+
+- remove deprecated subr and gsubr functions
+ in procs.h, procs.c: scm_make_subr, scm_make_subr_opt,
+ scm_make_subr_with_generic,
+ in gsubr.h, gsubr.c: scm_make_gsubr, scm_make_gsubr_with_generic.
+
+- remove deprecated C interface to modules
+ in modules.h, modules.c:
+ root_module_lookup_closure, scm_sym_app, scm_sym_modules,
+ module_prefix, make_modules_in_var, beautify_user_module_x_var,
+ scm_the_root_module, scm_make_module, scm_ensure_user_module,
+ scm_load_scheme_module
+
+- remove vcell and obarray support.
+ Remove all code bracketed by `#if SCM_ENABLE_VCELLS'.
+ Remove SCM_ENABLE_VCELLS itself.
+ Also remove `variable-set-name-hint' completely.
+
+- remove compatability module (ice-9 and-let*). It
+ has been replaced by (ice-9 and-let-star) and/or (srfi srfi-2).
+
+- remove support for autoloading compiled-code modules:
+ try-module-linked
+ try-module-dynamic-link
+ init-dynamic-module, etc.
+ scm_register_module_xxx
+ scm_registered_modules
+ scm_clear_registered_modules
+
+- remove deprecated variables:
+ scm_top_level_lookup_closure_var
+ scm_scm_system_transformer
+ Remove all code that still sets them:
+ `use-syntax', scm_set_current_module, ...
+
+- remove deprecated functions:
+ eval.c: scm_eval2, scm_eval_3
+ load.c: scm_read_and_eval_x
+ smob.c: scm_make_smob_type_mfpe, scm_set_smob_mfpe
+ gc.c: scm_remember
+ string.c: scm_makstr, scm_makfromstr
+- remove deprecated procedures:
+ boot-9.scm: eval-in-module, id, -1+, return-it, string-character-length,
+ flags
+- remove deprecated macros: SCM_OUTOFRANGE, SCM_NALLOC, SCM_HUP_SIGNAL,
+ SCM_INT_SIGNAL, SCM_FPE_SIGNAL, SCM_BUS_SIGNAL, SCM_SEGV_SIGNAL,
+ SCM_ALRM_SIGNAL, SCM_GC_SIGNAL, SCM_TICK_SIGNAL, SCM_SIG_ORD,
+ SCM_ORD_SIG, SCM_NUM_SIGS, SCM_SLOPPY_STRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_STRINGORSUBSTR,
+ SCM_FREEP, SCM_NFREEP, SCM_CHARS, SCM_UCHARS, SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING,
+ SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING_COPY, SCM_VALIDATE_NULLORROSTRING_COPY, SCM_ROLENGTH,
+ SCM_LENGTH, SCM_HUGE_LENGTH, SCM_SUBSTRP, SCM_SUBSTR_STR, SCM_SUBSTR_OFFSET,
+ SCM_COERCE_SUBSTR, SCM_ROSTRINGP, SCM_RWSTRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_RWSTRING,
+ SCM_ROCHARS, SCM_ROUCHARS, SCM_SETLENGTH, SCM_SETCHARS, SCM_LENGTH_MAX,
+ SCM_GC8MARKP, SCM_SETGC8MARK, SCM_CLRGC8MARK, SCM_GCTYP16, SCM_GCCDR,
+ SCM_SUBR_DOC, SCM_OPDIRP, SCM_VALIDATE_OPDIR, SCM_WTA, RETURN_SCM_WTA,
+ SCM_WNA, SCM_FUNC_NAME, SCM_VALIDATE_NUMBER_COPY,
+ SCM_VALIDATE_NUMBER_DEF_COPY, SCM_SLOPPY_CONSP, SCM_SLOPPY_NCONSP,
+ SCM_SETAND_CDR, SCM_SETOR_CDR, SCM_SETAND_CAR, SCM_SETOR_CAR,
+ SCM_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS,
+ SCM_LIST0, SCM_LIST1, SCM_LIST2, SCM_LIST3, SCM_LIST4, SCM_LIST5,
+ SCM_LIST6, SCM_LIST7, SCM_LIST8, SCM_LIST9
+- remove scm_listify
+- remove scm_vector_set_length_x
+- remove function scm_call_catching_errors
+ (replaced by catch functions from throw.[ch])
+- remove support for "#&" reader syntax in (ice-9 optargs).
+- remove scm_make_shared_substring
+- remove scm_read_only_string_p
+- remove scm_strhash
+- remove scm_tc7_ssymbol
+- remove scm_tc7_msymbol
+- remove scm_tcs_symbols
+- remove scm_sloppy_memq, scm_sloppy_memv, scm_sloppy_member
+- consider removing the automatic loading of (ice-9 rdelim) when guile
+ starts up. This would be a brave move, since a lot of code will
+ assume that read-line is available by default. However it would make
+ it easier to use alternative implementations of this module, e.g., a
+ strictly scsh-compatible version which uses multiple values. For
+ interactive use it would be easy to load the module in ~/.guile.
+- remove scm_close_all_ports_except
+- remove scm_strprint_obj
+- remove SCM_CONST_LONG
+- remove scm_wta
+- remove deprecated typedefs: long_long, ulong_long, scm_sizet
+- remove deprecated macros: scm_contregs, scm_port_rw_active,
+ scm_port, scm_ptob_descriptor, scm_debug_info, scm_debug_frame,
+ scm_fport, SCM_FIXNUM_BIT, scm_option, scm_subr_entry, scm_rstate,
+ scm_rng, scm_i_rstate, scm_srcprops, scm_srcprops_chunk,
+ scm_info_frame, scm_stack, scm_array, scm_array_dim.
+- remove deprecated functions: scm_mkbig, scm_big2num, scm_adjbig,
+ scm_normbig, scm_copybig, scm_2ulong2big, scm_dbl2big, scm_big2dbl.
+- remove deprecated functions: scm_protect_object,
+ scm_unprotect_object, scm_create_hook.
+
+[TODO ends here]
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