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Roadmap #5

I reviewed roadmap #4 awhile ago. I noted there that the project completely changed directions.

Here is the belated Roadmap #5

Loose Ends

I also promised that I would "re-sell" Oil. Focus it on the message.

I did update the oil quick ref. The language is fairly well designed in my head and through the auto-conversion tool.

But honestly I don't feel that is necessary.

Main Priority: Real Usage with Alpine Linux

• Issues with Alpine

  • Parsing APKBUILD -- pure shell
  • for stats on architecture
  • for lint -- someone complained about lack of checksums
  • not happy with it subpackage issue ncopa mentioned
  • there is room for Oil

• Very long term: PID 1 (openrc replacement)

• Good:

  • small base system, for base hardware, and also containers
  • fast downloads in apk
  • security focused
  • works on several architectures (I guess Arch Linux doesn't)
  • uses basic shell
  • uses basic make -- maybe a test case for a very simple Makefile parser in Oil? Dynamic parsing can hinder this.

Further Down the Road

These things probably won't be done in the next 3 months. But I am itching to work on them.

I will just give a little status update, and current thoughts.

• OPy / OVM

  • code coverage stats
  • optimization

• Oil language implementation. I want to do this, but it's also locked on a third task:

• Unify OSH and Oil execution semantics. I don't want to maintain two entirely separate shells!

  • strict mode, sane mode
  • Oil is the sane and strict version of OSH!

Help Wanted

If you want an interactive shell, you should tell me.

Also, the idea of an in-person Hackathon crossed my mind. If I can get 3 people to show up and contribute 20 lines of code each it could be worth it.

If this soudns appealing e-mail me.