ROADMAP.md

Road Map

List of minimum features before every release

Alpha 0.0.5 [NEXT VERSION]

General

• set a max history size (when its hit, start overwriting from the top down)
• update screenshot

Features

• handle linux pipes
• handle output redirection (>>, <, >, etc)
• add '&' operator to spawn another process
• add '*' operator for 'any;
• handle internal and env variables
• tokenize special chars (&&, ;, etc) to run multiple commands at once

Beta 0.1.0

General:

• finish all 'TODO' tags in source code
• clean up code
• add more comments
• squash all bugs
• signed .deb packages for release

Features

• add aliases
• add aliase options (ex DOS, bash, zsh, etc);
• add user defined aliases
• add simple scripting
• add a config file

Stable Release 1.0.0

General

• all TODO list items completed
• software is confirmed stable
• software confirmed bug free
• software confirmed to not have memory leaks
• software is optimized for speed and size
• finish scripting

Wish List

• be a competitior for bash/zsh/fish
• make a windows version
• POSIX compliant

Completed

List of completed items from previous releases

Alpha 0.0.4

General:

• create a road map
• ~~make command history be located in the home dir (ex ~/.qsh.history)~~
• test other libc implementations (musl, uClibc, etc)
• write a manpage

Features:

• add command line args
• handle ctrl^C (return to prompt, instead of closing)
• add '~' operator to point to the users home dir (and use it for prompt too)
• use history file to populate auto complete
• use current directory to populate auto complete

Alpha 0.0.3

General:

• create a road map
• ~~make command history be located in the home dir (ex ~/.qsh.history)~~
• test other libc implementations (musl, uClibc, etc)

Features:

• handle ctrl^C (return to prompt, instead of closing)
• add '~' operator to point to the users home dir (and use it for prompt too)

Alpha 0.0.2

General:

• add info for GNU readline and author info on linenoise-mob in README
• be usable as a default shell
• document and fix known bugs
• add to github account
• pretty up the README (ex links and pictures)
• prioritize TODO list
• come up with a list of commands
• copy over old read me
• mark all other quick term projects as deprecated
• move TODO to its own file
• add a license (MIT or GPLv2)
• add color to prompt
• audit code for memory leaks
• audit code for buffer overflows
• create a make file
• understand gcc -O option (optimization)
• fix this bug in linenoise lib

Features:

• basic features (ex run a command, change directories)
• add a line editing feature