todo

Todo

Contributions welcome via pull requests, thanks. Please use github 'issues' for discussion.

TODOs for v0.6

• Complete 'bintray' integration.

TODOs for 0.6.x

• support for 'source debs'.
• Improve .deb support (more config options. Support for changelog etc)
• 'exec' task (impetus for labels)
• 'labels' for tasks (so you can create multiple configs per task, e.g. exec:gen-sources and exec:gen-docs)

Vague TODOs

Below are change requirements with an unspecified priority. See existing issues for more immediate changes.

• 'launchpad' task. I guess this would depend on the 'source deb' task.
• add specific archive-zip and archive-tgz tasks
• -f (force) option
• Add option ldflags variable interpolation for main.VERSION variable name and other build flags. Use template for ldflags.
• Reintroduce static varable interpolation (write value into source code) as a task. Option for variable name.
• pre- & post-build scripts to run? pre-and-post for any task?
• Capability to run multiple configs at once? -c=a,b
• Bug: issue with config overriding. Empty strings do not currently override non-empty strings. Would involve more involved use of json and flagSet packages.
• Option to specify precise dir & name for a particular artifact?
• Permit unrecognised platforms (as Golang adds more)
• Respect +build flags inside file comments (just like 'go build' does)
• Much more error handling and potentially stop-on-error=true flag
• Refactoring: Utilise/copy from gotools source
• Meaningful godocs everywhere
• More Unit Tests!!
• Configurable 'downloads' page: name, format (e.g. markdown,html,ReST,jekyll-markdown), Done: header /footer template?
• Generate 'downloads overview' page (append each version's page as a relative link) ?
• Other Packaging (deb already done) e.g. source deb, .srpm & .rpm, .pkg? ... installer?
• Improve sanity check: automatically build target toolchain if missing? (need to work out detection mechanism)
• Improve sanity check: 'download golang source' option?
• Improve sanity check: warn about non-core libraries and binary dependencies?
• building .so/.dll shared libraries?
• Maybe someday: Build plugins (for OS-specific wizardry and stuff)? Pre- and post-processing scripts?
• Maybe someday: Investigate [forking and ?] hooking directly into the gotools source, instead of using os.exec. Fork would be required due to non-exported functions.
• Maybe someday: Use goroutines to speed up 'xc' (not toolchain because it recompiles host toolchain first)