Future Releases Plan

&XercesCName; Future Releases Plan

This document highlights the release plan for &XercesCName;.

Current Status

&XercesCName; 2.6.0 - released on September 29, 2004.

Next Target Release

The &XercesCName; team is currently working on plans for future releases. At present, we believe there will be a 3.0 release with new functionality targeted roughly at the second half of 2005. As a change in the major version allows us to break source compatibility, we are trying to take our time in order to break now what needs to be broken. There is some chance that changes breaking source compatibility will not be needed, and that "3.0" features will be released in the 2.x line.

Further releases in the 2.x line are anticipated concurrent with 3.0 development in order to fix issues or bugs in 2.6. Once 3.0 is released, we may also issue further 2.x releases as needed by the community.

&XercesCName; 2.y.z - as needed to address bugs or other issues.

&XercesCName; 3.0 - Targetted roughly for second half of 2005.

&XercesCName; 3.0 (tentative) Features list

The following table lists the potential TODO items for &XercesCName; 3.0. It does not include fixing bugs that are opened in Jira; unless such Jira bug involves a major development effort and requires an architectural redesign, or is an enhancement suggestion.

This list tracks current ideas and developer sign-up for 3.0 features. Some items on this list have no volunteer. Items that have no volunteer will receive no development attention and therefore will not become part of 3.0. If you would like to volunteer for these or other items please email the &XercesCName; mailing list

ID | Feature Description | Volunteer
--- | --- | ---
1 | Reorganization of public/private includes |
2 | Revisiting/sanity checking of install locations |

3

Refactoring of x-platform support

Initial cut - James (done)
Basic posix support - James (done)
Mac re-port/test - James (done)
Windows re-port/test - Alberto
Linux re-port/test: Gareth, Alberto [VMWare (Red Hat 9, Red Hat 7.3) and I can add more], Scott Cantor [test], cargilld [w/ xlC]
Solaris - Scott Cantor [test]
Cygwin - Neil/Alberto (mostly done?)
MingGW - Alberto (mostly done?)
Interix - Alberto
AIX - cargilld
OS390 - cargilld

4 | A true autoconf based build infrastructure | James, Jason Stewart, Scott Cantor, John Snelson (mostly done--pending ports of additional platforms)
5 | Add a libcurl based NetAccessor | James (done)
6 | DOM 3.0 support | Alberto, Gareth
7 | XPath |
8 | XInclude | Gareth, Caroline Rioux Graham Innocent
9 | Add a ACE-based NetAccessor | Alberto - as time permits
10 | Add RelaxNG support | (Michael Fuller -- would provide some help)
11 | Audit/Update of XML Schema support. | cargilld
12 | Const signature changes. [783, 1153, 1223] | cargilld
13 | XML Catalog Support |
14 | Roll .c code into template headers? |
| Features/APIs to be removed
20 | Remove Deprecated DOM altogether - Whether we should actually do this is still being debated. | Gareth
21 | Remove and/or update deprecated enums | Gareth
22 | Remove non-thread-safe psvi methods | Gareth
23 | Remove Mac OS Classic Support | James
24 | Remove OS/2 (or update it) | Alberto
25 | Remove Borland C++ 4, CodeWarrior, VACPP40 and Unsupported from Windows platform | Alberto
26 | Audit/Potential removal of all deprecated methods | cargilld
27 | Remove tests/samples not invoked by sanityTest.pl | cargilld / James