# $Id: TODO,v 1.9 1998/12/16 16:59:50 lat Exp $ -*- indented-text -*-
# $Name:  $

Projects to work on.  The order of items is not prioritized.  If you
implement one of these items, please remove the item and add a mention
to `ChangeLog' and `NEWS' (the latter provided the change is important
enough).

001. Write the tools in perl instead of shell scripts.  Makes them
     faster, more powerful, and easier to maintain (gets rid of all
     the horrible shell hackery).  May also help with portability, as
     perl is very widely available nowadays.

002. Replace autoconf with a similar perl-based tool; the performance
     of the configure scripts should go up dramatically, especially on
     Win-NT.  This may also help SRT become independent of Cygwin32
     (but still be able to use it where installed).  Another benefit
     would be that the generated `configure' scripts (there would no
     longer be any) need not be put in CVS and hence packages would
     still work even if SRT has been changed since the package was
     last updated.

003. Sort out command semantics: some work on current directory, others
     go to the one named.

004. `chmod' gives problems when trying to update/delete versions or
     releases created by somebody other than yourself.  Maybe the best
     solution is a maintainer account?  Or some other way to unread
     protect the areas (e.g. AFS acls)?

005. Index the manual.

006. Extend TARGET_SUBDIRS to support path names in addition to simple
     directory names.

007. Add extension hooks to the tools such as freeze.

Before next release: o+x$

- make standard.mk parallel safe again -- subpackage rules need
  to be in standard.mk, not in rules.mk
- re-enable warnings for aCC? ==> not until 1.15, current 1.12
+ parse-uses: handle packages that end up using themselves
  (package name, e.g. line 697)
+ logiscope clean up files
+ linker does not get all -I options (from __ppflags?)
? DCE threads support on HP-UX 10.20
? shared library linking on HP-UX 10 (Tony Wildish, 30 Mar 1998)

read:
http://www.hep.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk/atlas/atrig/atrig-dev-guide.html
  --> Working model for ATRIG develpment
      --> the directory tree,  (pointer of part of text)
http://www.hep.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk/atlas/atrig/atrig-dev-guide.html#problems
http://www.hep.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk/atlas/atrig/atrig-dev-faq.html

notify:
Frank Harris, John Harvey: EMACS support (Tools/elisp)