Planned for next versions

Next major Version

Planned for later versions

• Linking with C++ code
• Higher level optimizer including liveliness analysis
• LLVM backend support
• Support for more architectures
• Corba support?
• Cleanup of unit loading system
• Better support for dynamic linking and packages
• Support for sets with more than 256 elements

Maintenance tasks still open (Junior developer tasks)

Estimated difficulty on a scale from 1 to 10 is added in parentheses.

• Rework and check the windows unit (macro parameter problem) (3)
• Rework, reorganize, re-sort the FPC compiler parameter handling and use long options
• More Windows API units (4)
• A set of cross platform and architecture basic networking components (difficulty: 5 work: 7-8)
• Porting Delphi source for projects/contrib (3-6, depending on package)
• Debug/extend Intel assembler support (7-8)
• Work on the IDE
  • investigate open bug reports concerning the IDE (5-8)
  • (Related to IDE/FV, but also useful without) Fix and maintain the OS independant terminal routines (Video/Keyboard/Mouse) (7)
• Generating high quality feedback (bugreports with 100 lines max demo programs)
• More demos and examples (2-4)
• Documentation, tutorials
• Improve the database support
  • Improve basic custom variants support (TInvokableVariant, TPublishableVariant) (4-6)
  • Improve TDataSet compability (implement missing methods) (4-6)
  • Drivers (descendants) for more database types (6-8)
• More OS/2 support
  • OS/2 API units (including SOM) (4)
  • Adopt more packages for OS/2 (3)
  • Write SOM Compiler emiter (OS/2) for Free Pascal (8)
• Maintenance of Graph unit (on one platform or more), create a SDL Graph unit? (5-7)
• Adding an architecture (9-11)
  • m68k
  • Extend ARM support to more cores and OSes