Detailed 2.2.0 Todo
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis todo is for people working on fpc to write down what they want to do till 2.2.0 is released. It's not a wishlist what shall be done. Feature requests etc. should be added to mantis.
Compiler
packages (Florian/Peter)(2.4.0)Module handling rewrite (Peter/Florian)(2.4.0)- Crosscompiling to Mac OS X (Marco)
rewrite assigning of automated types like variants and widestrings (Florian)complete unique type support (Florian)- dispinterfaces (Florian)
- improve HTML rendering of IDE (Florian/Tomas(?))
Internal linker for ELF platforms?(2.4.0)better string append support (Peter)Use Sysutils (Peter)Directory caching (Peter)- generics support (Florian)
- Fix all testsuite failures which are in 2.1.x but not in 2.0.x (all)
- bug fixing (all)
- Delphi incompatibility regarding register calling convention (push order of stack based arguments)
- fix bugs in *nix tthread.inc's (joining detached threads, possibly some more dataraces) (Jonas)
Packaging
- Use fpmake for building (Michael/Peter)
- Use fppkg for package repository (Michael/Peter)
RTL
- 64-bit file support for Solaris (?)
- 64-bit file support for MacOS (?)
- 64-bit file support for Netwlibc (?)
64-bit file support for Linux (Neli)- 64-bit file support for Linux/FPC_USE_LIBC (Neli)
- Fix get_caller_frame stuff for code without stackframes (Daniel)
- ARM badly needs mod/divide helpers in assembler
add {$optimization nostackframe} to objects unit and to all code which uses it (IDE, fvision)(superseded by r5146)- basic template unit (map and list) (Neli)
FCL
IDE
- Try to implement a TP like evaluate/modify window (Daniel)