Development Roadmap
The current version is 2.0.0.0, dated 23 May 2008. Any bugs reported will be fixed on a weekly basis, through interim point releases. Below is the development roadmap.
- Detailed plan for file format detection algorithm.✓
- Implementation of file-format detection.✓
- Detailed plan for batch file i/o system.✓
- Implementation of batch file i/o system.✓
- Detailed plan for documentation/help file topics.✓
- Creation of documentation/help file source (DocBook files).✓
- Detailed plan for Help system (XSL to XHTML, XSL to XSL:FO for PDF).✓
- Implementation/testing of Help system (XSL to XHTML).✓
- Completion of documentation.✓
- Update of Website.✓
- Update of installer.✓
- Installer testing.✓
- First full release of version 1.1.✓
- Updates following any feedback on 1.1.✓
- Addition of new save/output format, "ASCII with numeric entities".✓
- First full release of version 1.2.✓
- Addition of scripting capability using the Mozilla SpiderMonkey engine.✓
- Updates to all documentation to include the scripting features.✓
- First full release of version 2.0.✓
- Addition of a German interface translation, by Jörg Eickholz.✓
- Rewrite of the application in Delphi 2009, enabling use of PCRE engine for regular expressions, and better Unicode support.
- Addition of XSLT transformation as one of the Transformation Item types, based on the libxml2 library.
- Refactoring of application code to introduce threading, to avoid problems caused by buggy script code running in the JavaScript engine.
- Release of version 3.0.
- Creation of PDF documentation system, using XSL to XSL:FO to PDF.
- Inclusion of PDF documentation in 3.1 release.