[ourplans]

Planned Extensions

01. General

• Need to sign releases. [0.5rc]
• Provide public-facing issue reporting/tracking system. [0.5rc]
• Integrate with Ant 1.6.2 [0.5rc]
  • Support for antlibs and namespaces. [0.5rc] (Needs Ant 1.6.2)
  • Support for <propertyset>s. [0.4rc]
  • Support for <macrodef>s. [0.5b1]
  • Support for top-level tasks. [0.4b3]
  • Support for mutable properties. [0.4rc]
  • Update documentation to apply to Ant 1.6 runtime. [0.4rc]
• Add a version.txt file to AntX distribution. [0.6]
• Move User Guide to web as individual component descriptions. [1.0]
• Export AntXtras/Oofs (One Offs) as a separate release package on SF.net. Include links to package from our “Contributed Source” section. [???]

02. Execution Iteration and Fixture Support

• Introduce build-iteration controls element (other than System properties) that AntX tasks/types use to determine default and/or inherited settings. (AntX value-URIs.) [0.6]
• Add a build-iteration identifier (ITID) that is based on date/time and the standard JWare product information. [0.5rc]
• Add a <iterationconfig> element that simplifies the various AntX management tasks (particularly those done once at initialization time like <manageuris>). [0.5rc]
• Integration of build-iteration artifacts framework. Now an independent AntXtras project (ssmc).
• Add support for custom classpaths and filepaths to various fixture control and admin tasks like <manageuris>. [0.6]
• Enhance <overlay> so can overlay a <properties> object. [0.6]
• Enhance <isolate> to pay attention to default fixture excludes. Will need to create an equivalent to Ant’s defaultexcludes mechanism. [0.6]
• Enhance <unassign> to support multiple items to unassign at once. [0.6]

03. Execution Rules Framework

• Add ability to turn off <assert>s. [0.5b2]
• Add JRE test to set of platform-specific conditions. Must be supported by our <do> to ensure compatibility with AntUnit. <assert>s. [0.6]
• Add new value-URIs handlers to give access to predefined AntX conditions like <tallyset>s. [0.5rc]
• Fix the various set checking conditions like <allset> to accept string lists and files. [0.6]
• Rework the “is-available” type conditions to include a new <isdirectory> and <isfile> pair that can be defined with flexible value attributes. [0.6]
• The AntX “httpalive” shorthand conditions should support a secondary “maxwait[millis]” modifier. [0.6]
• Add generic <exists> condition to base AntX framework; in particular to support the new expanded <fixturecheck>. [0.6]
• Enhanced <fixturecheck> to support nested elements including the new <exists> and <antversion> conditions. [0.6]
• Combine <capturelogs> and <captureoutputs> for AntUnit. [0.6]

04. Feedback Framework (Log4Ant)

• Extract functionality of <emitlogs> to a top-level Ant BuildListener that can be used from command line. [0.6]
• Ensure Log4Ant works with Log4J’s Chainsaw 2.x. [0.5rc]
• Make capturing the environment, packaging(zip), and sending(mail) easier from within an <iferror> handler taskset. [0.6]
• Rename <msgsconfigure> to <overlay-msgs> and <emitconfigure> to <overlay-emit> to better sync with our overlay terminology. [0.5rc]
• Ensure Log4Ant works with the upcoming Log4J 1.3 distribution. [0.6|0.7] (Depends on log4j 1.3 beta’s date.)
• Enhance <printenv> and <print> to support a propertieslike option. [0.6]
• Improve the block coverage of the various print component unit tests. [0.6]

05. Flow-Control Framework

• Add ability to call macrodefs from <callforeach> and <call>. [0.5b3]
• Add mode=local support to <foreach>. This mode will make the nested tasks create a macrodef in effect. [0.5b3]
• Extend <callforeach> and <foreach> with fileset loop controls to support a new “basenameonly” parameter. [0.5b2]
• Enhance <domatch> to support choices based on pre-defined conditions like <tallyset>s. [0.5b2]
• Enhance <do> to support general “is true” and “is false” conditions. This mechanism must be compatible with macrodef’s attributes and AntX value-URIs. [0.5b1]
• Enhance <do> to support access to pre-defined conditions as execution controls. Should be based on same code as the <domatch>’s new shorthand condition evaluation. [0.5b2]
• Fix <callinline> to reconfigure (enabled) components to overlay environment. Should also redo for <property> and <propertyset>! [0.5rc]
• Add support for a maxloops parameter to looping tasks as a hard-stop mechanism in event of runaway tests or very large sets. [0.5b3]
• Enhance <dowhile> and <foreach> to support a kind of loop break. [???]
• Introduce a kindof default problem handler (that is linked to <iferror> somehow). [0.6]

06. Value URI Framework

• Rework valueuris.xml to auto enable valueuris. This file is never used unless valueuris are being enabled so there's no real point to requiring that mighty long enable it flag! [0.6]
• Add platform test uris for AntX conditions like $os:, $ant[like]:, and $jre[like]:. [0.6]

07. Resource Bundle Messages Framework

• Fix the unintuitive way a "default" message bundle is not searched after a "root" message bundle is installed. Make the default bundle the last in the search path unless explicitly turned off. [0.6]

08. Helpers 

• Expose task <copy[system]property> that changes a system property. [0.5b1]
• Add parameter “urlproperty” to various new object tasks (like <newtempfile>) that saves the new item’s location as a URL to specified property. [0.5b1]
• Add support for Ant itself in <vendorinfo> task. [0.6?] (Has been upgraded to support for Apache Depot’s version project so it’s been pushed to a later release, ssmc)
• Extend <assign> to support the following operations for integers: "sum", "abs", "min", and "max". Instead added support for float values. [0.5b2]
• Tweak <parentdir> to permit classpath info when looking for resources. [0.6]
• Enhance <properties> to support "refid" and "inherit" parameters. [0.6]

09. Support for other JWare/AntXtras-based Projects 

• AntUnit (website).
• CI-Build.
• Subversion.

10. In Need of Future JRE, Ant, and/or newer Third-Party Library

• Determine how the build script’s location can be tranferred to the Log4J context as log event’s source. Currently not be feasible (ssmc). [??]
• Determine whether AntX’s mutable properties helpers <assign> and <assignimport> can leverage the new PropertyHelper utility in Ant 1.6. Currently not be feasible because property helper hooks/overrides are not passed on to sub-projects and are not exposed in the property collections (ssmc). [??]

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• Item design and implementation has started.
• Item has been completed and released to some milestone iteration.
• Item has fallen behind schedule (missed milestone).
• Item has been rescheduled to next major release.
• Item has fallen seriously behind schedule an is in danger of reverting to simply “planned” for a future iteration.
• Item has been cancelled permanently. (This status is shown for one full point release cycle; it is then removed along with item.)