[MonoDevelop] Planning MonoDevelop 1.0
Paulo Aboim Pinto
esqueleto at tusofona.com
Thu Nov 30 14:49:26 EST 2006
Hello again
I remember that would be great that we could have a Solution Folder.
Solution Folder is a Virtual Folder in MD Solution Tree where we could
put all related projects. Now we can't relate projects and using a
Solution Folder we can do that.
I think that VS2005 has this feature but I can't be sure.
Regards
Paulo Aboim Pinto (Esqueleto)
Odivelas - Portugal
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 00:28 +0100, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> After several years of development MonoDevelop is beginning to be really
> useful to develop real applications, so I think it makes sense to start
> planning a stable 1.0 release. My proposal is the following:
>
> * MD beta 1 release around mid January (two months from now). In
> this release we would include most of the missing features for
> 1.0 (see below). We would do code freeze at this point.
>
> * MD beta 2 (or RC) release around mid February. Mainly bug fixes
> and memory usage reduction.
>
> * MD 1.0 release around mid March. It will include the latest bug
> fixes. I also think we should work on writing documentation for
> this release, specially tutorials.
>
> So, which features is MD 1.0 going to include?. I'd like to get input
> from contributors and users about that, but I think what we should do is
> to finish and polish what we already have.
>
> I went through all add-ins and I have written down some notes about
> what's missing on each of them (bugs aside):
>
> * MonoDevelop core: The core can be considered complete now. No
> major new features are planned. However, we need to make an
> audit of the API to make sure we don't have public classes or
> methods which don't really need to be public. I'd like also to
> find some time to reorganize a bit the extension point tree
> (which has a mixture of SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop branches),
> to something like what I described some months ago:
> http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/monodevelop-list/2006-January/003077.html
>
> * Debugger: I know a lot of people will ask for this, but I fear
> the debugger won't be ready by our code freeze date. We can
> release it later on as a separate add-in.
>
> * Documentation browser: The Monodoc integration more or less
> works, but there are some known crashes. However I still believe
> that showing Monodoc in an external window would be more
> practical that the current integrated view. The integrated
> documentation tree is not really useful, we don't have search or
> an index integrated.
>
> * Text editor: There are several requests/issues to solve:
> * Parameter completion: after typing the name of a method,
> show a popup window with information about the
> parameters the method takes.
> * Remove C#-isms. The code completion engine has several
> C#-isms in the code, which may make it difficult to
> integrate with other languages.
> * Configurable key bindings. That's not specific to the
> editor, but people mostly complain about it. I'm not
> sure we can implement this for 1.0.
> * Refactory operations. We have and under-used refactory
> API. It would be nice to use it to implement some basic
> refactoring operations.
>
> * VS importer: Ankit is working on supporting VS2005 files right
> now. The idea is that you can open VS files directly in MD and
> work with those projects like if they were native projects. It
> will support writing changes such as adding files or modifying
> the project configuration. Ideally, we should do the same for
> VS2003 (right now it only supports importing for VS2003
> projects).
>
> * ASP.NET support: I don't know if this add-in can be mature
> enough for the 1.0 release. I'll need input on that (which
> features could we release? would the add-in be really useful for
> real world web projects?).
>
> * GTK# designer: There are several features to be implemented in
> the designer before the release:
> * Support partial classes when generating code.
> * Support for Undo/Redo.
> * Reuse the toolbox implemented for the ASP.NET add-in.
> * Support for some missing controls, such as Gtk.Fixed and
> context menus. It would be nice to have a TreeView
> designer, but it may be too much work for 1.0.
>
> * MonoQuery database management: I have no idea of what is the
> status of this add-in. I have never really used it. Can somebody
> give input about it? Do we want to support it for 1.0?
>
> * NUnit: It can be considered feature complete for 1.0. The only
> missing issue to resolve is what to do with the NUnit
> dependency. Right now the add-in can't be built with recent
> NUnit versions since they have breaking changes. I talked about
> this with Charlie Poole in the Mono summit and he suggested to
> embed the most recent NUnit dlls into the add-in, since even if
> the API has some breaking changes, new NUnit versions can still
> run tests written for all the previous versions.
>
> * Version Control: I recently integrated some of the changes done
> for the Google SoC project and improved it a lot. Support for
> SVN is mostly functional. What's missing is support for CVS. It
> would be nice to have for MD 1.0.
>
> * Welcome page: It looks ok to me.
>
> * Web references: I'd like to integrate the web references add-in
> implemented by Gideon de Swardt. The only problem I see is that
> it only supports .NET 2.0 projects. It would be nice to make it
> work for 1.1 as well.
>
> * Xml editor: It's being maintained outside of MD, so nothing to
> add. Just to make sure it works when we release 1.0.
>
> * Boo: I think this add-in is complete, but I'd also like to know
> the opinion of Peter about this. In any case, there is one issue
> that should be fixed: right now the Boo add-in always starts an
> external process which runs the backend for the Boo shell. This
> process should only be started if the user opens the shell,
> since it's a waste of memory otherwise.
>
> * CSharp: It is mostly complete. We may need to add support for
> partial classes. I'm not sure they are correctly handled by the
> parser right now.
>
> * ILAsm: I haven't used it for a long time. I guess it works.
>
> * Java: It's mostly complete, although there are some IKVM
> configuration issues that need to be fixed.
>
> * VB.NET: I don't think there is support for generics. We may want
> to migrate to the new VB compiler.
>
> * Nemerle: Don't know much about the status. Any input? The big
> problem I find is that it depends on a specific version of
> Nemerle from SVN. If it can't be made to depend on a packaged
> Nemerle version we won't be able to include it in the MD
> release.
>
> * ChangeLog add-in: It's now integrated with the version control
> add-in. There are ideas for improving it.
>
> * Autotools: There are several features I'd like to support for MD
> 1.0:
> * Support integration with existing Makefiles. That is, if
> somebody has a project with complex build rules which
> can't be emulated by MD, just make it possible to
> delegate the entire build process to Make, and still be
> able to launch the build from inside MD. About modifying
> the Makefile in MD, I think supporting adding/removing
> files would be enough for now.
> * We need to find a solution for file templates (.in
> files). MD uses some of them. We need to support them in
> the MD build model if we want to be able to completely
> build MD using MD.
> * There may be other missing features needed for
> self-hosting MD.
> * It would be nice to support generating a tarball without
> having to pollute the project directory with autotools
> files.
>
> * IDE extensions for Mono: Nothing much to do. Just make sure it
> works with the most recent Mono makefiles.
>
> As you can see that's a lot of work. I think we should prioritize
> working on features related with development GNOME desktop applications
> (which has been the main goal of MD anyway).
>
> I'd like to get feedback about this plan. I may not have a complete view
> of every add-in, and I'm sure I'm missing things.
>
> Thanks!
> Lluis.
>
>
>
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