The Roadmap

[Dan Sugalski]

I got asked a lot at OSCON, and this has been something of a topic on 
and off on the list. I've committed a DESIGN_TODO file with brief 
details of what I think still needs working on, which I'll be adding 
to as things make themselves obvious (I've got a bigger list on paper 
this morning) so there's some notion of what needs thinking about.

Here, though, is a short term roadmap. These are the things I want to 
deal with in the near future--probably through the end of august. If 
it's not on here, look in DESIGN_TODO and see if it's there. (If it's 
not in either place, then we need to add it to some list somewhere)

1) Finish the pie-thon post-mortem (this may add things to the list)
2) Get the return continuation, calling sub/method, and invoked 
object moved to the interpreter structure

3) Get serializable continuations working
4) Figure out what Leo's talking about with his proposal and see what works out
5) Finish piethon bytecode converters. (Yes, this isn't as good an 
option as writing a python compiler from source. If someone wants to 
tackle that I'm fine with it)

6) Get the strings design properly implemented
7) Get the namespace stuff worked out and implemented
Longer term:
*) Finalize the Event/IO PDD
*) Finalize the thread PDD
*) Finalize the notification system
*) Finalize PMC wrapping
*) Finalize Async IO internals system
*) Get the loadable pmc/opcode stuff working and documented
*) Finalize the security PDD
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                                Dan
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