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Project Roadmap #4

Let's look back at Roadmap #3

• Two Top Priorities
  • validating langauge design: going good.
  • fill out shell runtime. The test suite I'm working on.

Ongoing: done/not done/changed

Short Term: done/not done/changed

Medium Term: done/not done/changed

Long Term: done/not done/changed

Third priority: start executor in C++ -- which post did I mention this in? oheap: yes

TODO: Possibly include bootstrap.md -- notes about bootstrapping.

Testing Upgrades

Introduce the concept of spec tests.

I want to get contributors, and then I can blog more!

Recap of top three priorities:

• Shell Runtime in Python -- that is what the spec tests are for

  • TODO: link to Kartik's OpenBSD test suite

• Auto-convert: that has a proof of concept, although only 25% of work is done. Lossless Syntax Tree came out of this.

• Shell executor in C++. I want to work on this after testing. VERY CLOSE: I already have tests for oheap on toy ASDL schemas. But I need to do a vertical slice and compile osh.asdl to ovm.asdl, and then ovm.asdl will be executed in C++.

In the next post, I'll describe the test suite enhancements I've just committed to the master branch. The purpose of this work is to attract contributors. There are now enough separate tasks in this project that it makes sense to parallelize them.

The test suite enhancements deserve some blog space of their own, which is why I may skip over some posts.