Some ideas of larger projects

Language

- Comments... One Line Comments? Nested Comments? see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3523

Clean and Order

• Clean category / comments (some package are totally wrong)
• Towards SLint clean (integrate SLint rules as unit tests)
• PopMenu cleaning + request notification as fundation

Files and Streams

• Files: Use Filesystem instead
• Stream fixing? VW Dolphin compatibility discussions may be as a package

Packages, frameworks, tools and libraries

• May be load a simpler dateAndTime model and rely on chronos or aconcagua for the more specifc time issues.
• Package fileouter (HTML, Latex, chunk)

• Use better algorithm for substring matching (Boyer Moore).

UI

• Areithfa Ffenestri: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3862
• Decouple core/basic/model classes from UI (see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3100)

Tools

• All tools should support traits (esp. the browser)
• Better interface for smallLint
• Debugger code completion should take into account the types of the objects that are actually assigned to variables

• it would be nice to have a better test runner that
• use a tree to show the tests under a class
• takes advantage of the history showing which tests degrades since the last run.
• use icons to represent the status of the run tests at the packages, class, level.

Color highlightin based on http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Packages and SCM

• we need a way to refactor packages (naming, merging, ...)
• How can we version non-smalltalk things?
• Taking package per package and checking comments and adequacy| of the package in terms of classes containing it: We should have a real map of each package and its status for the next milestones.

Fixes and enhancement

• evaluate extension of moose for inclusions in pharo base library

Networking

• URI and URL need to be merged

General

• OS process and other
• Fix FFI

• Session Management, see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=837

Language and MOP

• BetterMop
• Do not store class definitions as do-its in changeset
• Distinguish workspace do-its from refactoring do-its in the changes

Currently under Active Development

• Better code meta model (Ring)
• Scripting syntax (Coral)
• Compiler (Opal)
• First class representation of instance variables (Slots)
• Rewrite ClassBuilder (Slots Project)
• Traits with State (Slots Project)
• Cleaning Morphic (better integration of Polymorph, i.e., no overrides)
• Kernel image: add process to create UI-less image (Nuts)
• One single default better and faster browser (Nautilus)
• A modern Canvas (Athens)
• First class Packages (RPackage)
• SSL support