Future Plans

• Planned for next versions

  • Next major Version
    • New implemented features are tracked on the Wiki.

• Planned for later versions

  • Linking with C++ code
  • Higher level optimizer including liveliness analysis
  • LLVM backend support
  • Support for more architectures
  • Corba support?
  • Cleanup of unit loading system
  • Better support for dynamic linking and packages
  • Support for sets with more than 256 elements

• Maintenance tasks still open (Junior developer tasks)

  Estimated difficulty on a scale from 1 to 10 is added in parentheses.
  • Rework and check the windows unit (macro parameter problem) (3)
  • Rework, reorganize, re-sort the FPC compiler parameter handling and use long options
  • More Windows API units (4)
  • A set of cross platform and architecture basic networking components (difficulty: 5 work: 7-8)
  • Porting Delphi source for projects/contrib (3-6, depending on package)
  • Debug/extend Intel assembler support (7-8)
  • Work on the IDE
    • investigate open bug reports concerning the IDE (5-8)
    • (Related to IDE/FV, but also useful without) Fix and maintain the OS independant terminal routines (Video/Keyboard/Mouse) (7)
  • Generating high quality feedback (bugreports with 100 lines max demo programs)
  • More demos and examples (2-4)
  • Documentation, tutorials
  • Improve the database support
    • Improve basic custom variants support (TInvokableVariant, TPublishableVariant) (4-6)
    • Improve TDataSet compability (implement missing methods) (4-6)
    • Drivers (descendants) for more database types (6-8)
  • More OS/2 support
    • OS/2 API units (including SOM) (4)
    • Adopt more packages for OS/2 (3)
    • Write SOM Compiler emiter (OS/2) for Free Pascal (8)
  • Maintenance of Graph unit (on one platform or more), create a SDL Graph unit? (5-7)
  • Adding an architecture (9-11 :-) )
    • m68k
    • Extend ARM support to more cores and OSes