Re: The goal of GNUstep 1.0

[Adrian Robert]

On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Fabien VALLON wrote:

> On Mer 26 octobre 2005 17:45, Adam Fedor wrote:
>
>
> > What bugs are you talking about? Perhaps we should prioritize the  
> > bugs in
> > the bug database...
>
> Maybye a TODO list ( Roadmap )  before a 1.0 ?
> Or maybye put all this TODO list in the bug system with a special
> entry/status ?
>
> I checked quickly some classes in AppKit ( with the OpenStep  
> specs )  to
> see if all methods are implements :

Great post.  This is exactly what we need (IMHO).  Then we put them  
into a task list and prioritize them according to must-have-by-1.0  
and otherwise..

In Foundation, NSNumberFormatter still needs work (Fred just recently  
started on it), and perhaps we should add the NSMessagePort  
implementation on Windows that Richard has talked about to the 1.0  
list?  I don't know if someone is willing to work on it, but I feel a  
fully functional Make/Base (not GUI/Back) on Windows should be  
prerequisite to 1.0 release.

There are a number of other "FIXME"s in the Base code, but assumedly  
most of these are icing-on-the-cake that can wait (as, hopefully, are  
many of the ones in GUI):

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./Additions/GCArray.m:  /* FIXME: Check if malloc return 0 */
--
./Additions/GCArray.m:  /* FIXME: Check if malloc return 0 */
--
./Additions/GSCategories.m:  /* FIXME: implement this better */
--
./Additions/Unicode.m:// FIXME check is uni_cop good for this
--
./cifframe.m:  /* FIXME: in cifframe_type, return values/arguments  
that are structures
./cifframe.m-     have custom ffi_types with are allocated  
separately. We should allocate
--
./GSFFCallInvocation.m:   See the avcall or vacall man pages for more  
info. FIXME: I'm betting
./GSFFCallInvocation.m-   this won't work if a structure contains  
another structure */
--
./GSFFCallInvocation.m:        * FIXME ... if we have a typed  
selector, it probably came
./GSFFCallInvocation.m-        * from the compiler, and the types of  
the proxied method
--
./GSFFCallInvocation.m: /* FIXME ... evil hack ... where the compiler  
did not know
./GSFFCallInvocation.m-  * selector types, if may have had to assume  
a method returning
--
./GSFFIInvocation.m:           * FIXME ... if we have a typed  
selector, it probably came
./GSFFIInvocation.m-           * from the compiler, and the types of  
the proxied method
--
./GSFormat.m:   FIXME: I wasn't brave enough to include floating  
point formatting -
./GSFormat.m-   glibc has CPU dependent routines and also uses gmp.  
So floating point
--
./GSFormat.m:   FIXME: This needs to use length, not '\0', when  
dealing with format
./GSFormat.m-   and %@
--
./GSFormat.m:   grouping = ""; // FIXME: grouping info missing in  
locale?
--
./GSFormat.m:    * FIXME - hack to rewrite decimal separator into  
correct locale
./GSFormat.m-    * if necessary.
--
./GSFormat.m:    * FIXME - hack to rewrite decimal separator into  
correct locale
./GSFormat.m-    * if necessary.
--
./GSLocale.m:  /* FIXME: Get currency format from localeconv */
--
./NSCalendarDate.m:  /* FIXME What if the two dates are in different  
time zones?
./NSCalendarDate.m-    How about daylight savings time?
--
./NSCharacterSet.m:// FIXME ... deprecated ... remove after next  
release.
--
./NSCharacterSet.m:// FIXME ... deprecated ... remove after next  
release.
--
./NSConnection.m:         // FIXME thread safety
--
./NSDecimal.m:  // FIXME: this is too small
--
./NSDecimal.m:  // FIXME: this is too big
--
./NSDecimal.m:  // FIXME: Here we need a check if the string fits  
into a GSDecimal,
./NSDecimal.m-  // if not we must round some limbs off.
--
./NSDecimal.m:  // FIXME: Make sure result is big enougth
--
./NSDecimal.m:  // FIXME: I don't understand how to do this
--
./NSDecimalNumber.m:      // FIXME: What exception to raise?
./NSDecimalNumber.m-      [NSException raise:  
@"NSDecimalNumberException"
--
./NSFileManager.m:      /* FIXME: On unix, directory accessable ==  
executable, so we simulate that
./NSFileManager.m-      here for Windows. Is there a better check for  
directory access? */
--
./NSFileManager.m:   * FIXME ... not sure there is any way to get a  
creation date :-(
./NSFileManager.m-   * Use the earlier of ctime or mtime
--
./NSInvocation.m:               /* FIXME: This only appears on sparc  
and ppc machines so far.
./NSInvocation.m-               structures appear to be aligned on  
word boundaries.
--
./NSKeyedArchiver.m:// FIXME ... exactly what classes are stored  
directly???
--
./NSKeyedArchiver.m:      _format =  
NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0;       // FIXME ... should be binary.
--
./NSKeyValueObserving.m:   * FIXME ... should store an object  
containing context and options.
./NSKeyValueObserving.m-   * For simplicity right now, just store  
context or a dummy value.
--
./NSKeyValueObserving.m:               * FIXME ... support structures
./NSKeyValueObserving.m-               * Unsupported types are  
quietly ignored ... is that right?
--
./NSNumberFormatter.m:  /* FIXME: This is just a quick hack  
implementation.  */
--
./NSNumberFormatter.m:  // FIXME
--
./NSNumberFormatter.m:  // FIXME: Should extract separators and  
attributes
--
./NSNumberFormatter.m:  // FIXME: Should extract separators and  
attributes
--
./NSNumberFormatter.m:  /* FIXME: This is just a quick hack  
implementation.  */
--
./NSObject.m:// FIXME - should this be added (as in OS X) now that we  
have NSKeyedArchiver?
--
./NSObject.m:// FIXME - should this be added (as in OS X) now that we  
have NSKeyedArchiver?
--
./NSPathUtilities.m:   * FIXME  ... Check/creation should perhaps be  
configurable.
./NSPathUtilities.m-   */
--
./NSPathUtilities.m:  /* FIXME: Win32 way to get full user name via  
Net API */
--
./NSPropertyList.m:         // FIXME ... should be immutable sometimes.
--
./NSPropertyList.m:// FIXME ... need to check properly.
--
./NSPropertyList.m:      // FIXME: Get more of the details
--
./NSPropertyList.m:      //FIXME
--
./NSPropertyList.m:       // FIXME: We need a better way to determine  
boolean values!
--
./NSScanner.m:#include <ctype.h>    /* FIXME: May go away once I  
figure out Unicode */
--
./NSScanner.m: * FIXME: I don't use the decimalDigitCharacterSet here  
since it
./NSScanner.m- * includes many more characters than the ASCII  
digits.  I don't
--
./NSScanner.m:  [self notImplemented:_cmd];                     /*  
FIXME */
--
./NSString.m:  // FIXME: Need to make mutable array into non-mutable  
array?
--
./NSString.m:     // FIXME ... should normalize composed character  
sequences.
--
./NSString.m:  /* FIXME ... should remove in future
./NSString.m-   * Anything beginning '~@' is assumed to be a windows  
path specification
--
./NSString.m:  /* FIXME ... should remove in future
./NSString.m-   * Anything beginning '~' followed by a single letter  
is assumed
--
./NSString.m:  // FIXME: This does only a normal compare, ignoring  
locale
--
./NSTimeZone.m:   FIXME?: use leap seconds? */
--
./NSTimeZone.m:          FIXME: Make this more robust. */
--
./NSUndoManager.m:   * FIXME: The terms @"Redo" and @"Redo %@" should  
be localized.
./NSUndoManager.m-   * Possibly with the introduction of  
GSBaseLocalizedString() private
--
./NSUndoManager.m:   * FIXME: The terms @"Undo" and @"Undo %@" should  
be localized.
./NSUndoManager.m-   * Possibly with the introduction of  
GSBaseLocalizedString() private
--
./NSXMLParser.m:        // FIXME
--
./NSXMLParser.m:    type: nil           // FIXME
--
./NSXMLParser.m:    model: nil];        // FIXME
--
./NSXMLParser.m:  return nil;   // FIXME
--
./NSZone.m:   memory (glibc malloc does this, what about other  
mallocs? FIXME).
--
./NSZone.m:#define BUFFER 4 /* Buffer size.  FIXME?: Is this a  
reasonable optimum. */
--
./NSZone.m:   FIXME: Optimize code and find a more optimum  
distribution. */
--
./NSZone.m:  /* FIXME: Do more checking? */
--
./unix/GSRunLoopCtxt.m:         int port_fd_count = 128; // FIXME
--
./win32/Win32_Utilities.m:      // FIXME: Check type is correct!
--
./win32/Win32_Utilities.m:          ; // FIXME: Talk to the NET API  
and get the profile path

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