A question on priorities
Here's a question that came up at the planning meeting this morning, and it's one that should properly be addressed to the community. There are a number of items in the "preview" (beta) directory of the VisualWorks distribution. The way we currently run releases, we do the following:
- Major release in the late fall/early winter of the year
- Minor release in the late spring/early summer of the year
In a minor release, we try to address things that skipped the major release, bugs, and preview items. looking at the preview items, here's the list:
- 64-bit engines
- Database\TIGER (connect package for the Cincom database)
- Database\Supra (connect package for the Cincom database)
- Glorp
- StoreForGlorp
- Modtracking/ModificationManagement (a framework for dealing with tracking object changes/immutability for things like database operations, particularly OODBs)
- Mqinterface
- Opentalk/iiop (CORBA related)
- Opentalk/Opentalk-Debugger
- Opentalk/Opentalk-Profiler
- Opentalk/Opentalk-SOAP
- Packaging/base.im (part of the deployment simplification process)
- IEEEMath
- MenuUICompatibility
- Pollock
- SmalltalkDoc (new documentation framework, to be integrated with the browsing tools)
- Unicode (display of arbitrary character sets w/o regard to the current locale)
- XSchema
The question I have here is - what do you think? If it was your call, which ones would you be most interested in seeing promoted out to a fully supported set?
