TODO.md

pantheios - TODO lists

Updated: 5th July 2020

Summaries:

Pantheios 1.0 TODOs:

• new logo
• new website
• integrated blog ~ separate out all utility code into separate headers, impl files, etc.
• PANTHEIOS_NOTHROW() ~ rewrite Core in pure C (or NoX for VC++ 7.1+ and GCC) ~ rewrite Back-ends in pure C (or NoX for VC++ 7.1+ and GCC) ~ rewrite Front-ends in pure C (or NoX for VC++ 7.1+ and GCC)
• auto-generate project files for VS'98
• auto-generate project files for 2010
• auto-generate implicit-link files
• auto-generate be l/r source files
• auto-generate be l/r header files
• rolling file ~ reimplement integral conversion in terms of new STLSoft 1.10 components

• release by Q4 2012!!!

Pantheios 1.1 TODOs:

• auto-generate project files for Xcode

** fix the TODO file first!! **

• Comeau 4.3.10 support

• README.TXT ~ complete, sensible distribution files

• separate UNIX and Windows distros, with the appropriate newline sequence for each ~ sort out \file fields

• full complement of Visual Studio 2003 project/solution files

• full complement of Visual Studio 2005 project/solution files

• full complement of Visual Studio 2008 project/solution files

• full complement of Visual Studio 2010 project/solution files ~ full complement of Visual Studio '98 project/solution files ~ review all the download/build/install documentation

• auto-check all implicit_link files

Pantheios 1.1 TODOs:

• full complement of Turbo C++ project/solution files (possibly, + full complement of XCode project/solution files)
• be.file buffering
• be.file rolling
• control console for fe.WindowsRegistry
• component test be.WindowsSyslog

Pantheios 1.2 TODOs:

~ Custom event log for bailout ~ Custom event log for be.WindowsEventLog

• be.loader fixed/internal (Windows, Mac & UNIX)
• be.loader dynamic/external (Windows, Mac & UNIX)

Pantheios 1.3 TODOs:

• implicit support for integer
• implicit support for floating-point types (possibly)

Pantheios 1.4 TODOs:

• Integrate FastFormat for full internationalisation

Details:

The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of items that will ideally be included in future releases.

? 2. RPMs, and packages for SUSE, FreeBSD, Mac OS-X, etc.

Status:

Priority: low/medium

? 4. pantheios_printf_len() family

Status:

Priority: low/medium

Details:

These functions will help in the implementation of maximally efficient custom string access shims

? 6. Fast arena

Status:

Priority: low/medium

Details:

Create a Pantheios fast arena, for inserter classes.

? 8. Literal string internationalisation

Status:

Priority: low

Details:

Internationalise the severity strings ????

? 9. Implement be.pantheios.COM

Status:

Priority: medium

Details:

This'll be implemented in terms of Pantheios.COM, implementing the back-end calls in terms of the Composite logger.

? 11. Workspaces/project files for compilers

Status:

Priority: low/medium

Details:

Need to generate automatically from the VC6 ones, for: Borland Visual C++ (7.x, 8.0) others?

? 12. Fully featured log4cxx, log4cplus, log4cpp backends

Status:

Priority: medium

? 14. Implement be.loader for Windows

Status:

Priority: medium

Details:

? 15. Implement be.loader for UNIX

Status:

Priority: medium

Details:

? 18. Allow be.file (or another be) to support file rolling

Status:

Prioriry: medium

Details: a user has requested a facility to allow log file rolling, i.e. where a log is closed, and another opened, based on date and/or size.

? 21. A decent README, and tutorial for UNIX and Win32, w + w/o IDE(s)

Status:

Prioriry: medium

Details: ????.

? 24. Fully document the library naming convention

Status:

Prioriry: medium

Details: Explain to users what on earth pantheios.1.bec.COMErrorObject.vc71.mt.nox.debug.lib means.

? 27. Fully-featured ACE back-end / front-end

Status:

Priority: medium

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