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| author | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2006-05-02 00:15:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2006-05-02 00:15:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 0b3c838c07bd6f946f141c197c867b6f15487efc (patch) | |
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Crib a list of features from the SCons home page.
Add a stab at a roadmap page.
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diff --git a/www/roadmap.html b/www/roadmap.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42a0305 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/roadmap.html @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +<html> +<head> +</head> +<body> + +<h2>Current Releases</h2> + +<p> +The current "stable" release is 0.96.1. +</p> + +<p> +The current testing pre-release is 0.96.92. +</p> + +<h2>Upcoming Releases</h2> + +Take these with a huge grain of salt, +this is very rough planning + +<table> +<tr> +<th>Release</th> +<th>Est. Date <font size="-1">(yeah, right)</font><th> +<th> +Goals +</th> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>0.96.93</td> +<td>???</td> +<td> +Significant speed up of some specific configurations, +plus accumulated patches. +Fix for the one cosmetic bug found so far in 0.96.92. +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>0.96.94</td> +<td>???</td> +<td> +Testing pre-release of the "Big Signature Refactoring," +a significant re-design of internal data structures +to accomplish the following: + <ul> + <li> + Interoperability between MD5 signatures and timestamps. + </li> + <li> + Ability to partition the dependency graph into separate SConstruct + (not SConscript) files. + </li> + <li> + Improved performance (we hope) + </li> + </ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>0.97</td> +<td>???</td> +<td> +Wider release of the "Big Signature Refactoring." +More extensive field testing before +declaring the new internals ready to be +blessed as the official 1.0 release. +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1.0</td> +<td>???</td> +<td> +Official, stable release. +No 1.x release will (knowingly) break compatibility +or cause a rebuild on upgrade. +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>2.0</td> +<td>???</td> +<td> +First release that will break backwards compatibility with Python 1.5.2. +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<!-- + +<h2>Upcoming Features</h2> + +--> + +<h2>Release Planning</h2> + +<h3>Why has 1.0 still not been released?</h3> + +<p> +As seems so common these days, +SCons has had an extremely lengthy "beta" period. +The primary goal has been to arrive at something by 1.0 +that we feel is absolutely rock-solid-stable +and which people can download and use without fear of +broken builds or unnecessary rebuilds. +To get some idea of how we do this, see our +<a href="testing.html">testing philosophy</a> page. +</p> + +<h3>Release numbering</h3> + +<p> +</p> + +</body> +</html> |