TODO

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   2
   3 These TODO items are grouped by target release version.  The first group is
   4 the "Eventually" group, which is not associated w/ any particular version.
   5 Move these items under a version upon completion (or better yet, ownership).
   6
   7 Upon completion, simply change the "-" to a "+", but do not delete the item.
   8 At release time, the "+" entries will be deleted after review to make sure
   9 that user-visible changes are reflected in NEWS (and that proper credit is
  10 applied :-).
  11
  12 Ownership is indicated by `[USERNAME]'.  Maintainers (w/ write privs) can
  13 indicate sponsorship by `[ACTUAL-OWNER:MAINTAINER]', where both elements are
  14 usernames.
  15
  16 See also file HACKING.
  17
  18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  19
  20 === Eventually:
  21
  22 - [after signal handling and threading have been fixed] remove the code
  23   corresponding to GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK and the corresponding
  24   GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK macro.
  25 - implement and integrate generational garbage collection
  26 - add POSIX thread support
  27 - factor thread support out of libguile
  28 - protect common resources using mutecis from the new interface
  29 - remove the dynamic roots
  30 - revise the fluid implementation
  31 - implement the GC thread synchronization (all threads: go to sleep!)
  32 - implementing the libguileposix threads glue library
  33 - GOOPS
  34   - develop better representation for GOOPS objects
  35   - rewrite method cache management in C
  36   - rewrite core macros (define-class et al) in C
  37   - define C API
  38 - write Orbit CORBA interface
  39 - [after new module system] factor out modules sort.c and random.c should be
  40   factored out into separate modules
  41 - include malloc debugging code in an optional file in libguile
  42 - fix looking up procedure names in environment in backtraces
  43 - implement srcprops using double cells
  44 - use "real" procprops
  45 - add facilities for easily debugging Scheme programs from Emacs
  46 - write good interface to Tk
  47 - write translators for additional languages
  48   - Perl
  49   - Python
  50   - TCL
  51   - Emacs Lisp
  52   - Rexx
  53 - make GDB work with Guile
  54 - use the SCM trick of tagging environments with immediates (see m_letrec1)
  55   to convert source correctly in unmemocopy
  56 - eliminate argument checking for closures
  57 - Implement a thread-safe alternative to SCM's environment caches
  58 - rename ice-9 to something more obvious
  59 - implement implicitly shared substrings (thread-safe, copy on write).  In
  60   this context, the concept of read-only-strings might be re-introduced to
  61   implement the symbol->string semantics of R5RS.
  62 - implement internationalized strings
  63 - revise the uniform vector implementation
  64
  65 === Before releasing 1.8.0:
  66
  67 - Make sure we have appropriate interface numbers for shared
  68   libraries, and that we document and use the libtool
  69   conventions. [rlb].
  70
  71 - Update the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION and README. [rlb]
  72
  73 - Start a new section of the NEWS file.
  74
  75 - Start a new THANKS file.
  76
  77 === Before releasing 1.10.0:
  78
  79 - in boot-9.scm:
  80   remove deprecated function `feature?´.
  81
  82 [TODO ends here]