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 Open Issues/To-Do Items   Targeted for 0.5 Alpha 4
   
  Targeted for 0.5 Alpha 3      * 'ILoadingService', 'IObjectLoader' and 'load:kind@URL' scheme
   
     * Refactor binding and naming frameworks to      * peak.config
   
       - get rid of cruft (such as JNDI 'attrs' hangover) and duplication        - "service zones" or "service groups" to do smarter service groupings
   
       - streamline descriptor mechanisms used by binding and model to make them        - Replace IMainLoop activity monitoring with a plugin-based mechanism?
         uniform and cleanly functional (in both senses of the word functional)  
   
       - clean up attribute metadata framework and get rid of all the special        - plugin keys ordered by definition sequence, rather than randomly
         cases (e.g. isinstance() checks, special attribute names, etc.)  
   
       - make indirection convenient (e.g. bind to looking up something from        - ZConfig factory support to allow "smart" interpretation of strings,
         another binding)          section names, etc.
   
     * Implement "contextual protocols" (c.f. "object teams") and "parameterized        - Writable and subscribable config sources, including editable .ini's
       protocols" (E.g. 'ListOf(IFoo)', 'MappingOf(keys=IBar,values=IBaz)')  
   
     * Rough-out web publishing framework      * peak.running.logs
   
       - Publication interfaces        - Separate formatters from publishers
   
       - Viewer/Controller adaptation mechanisms        - ZConfig schema for logging plugins, allowing multiple handlers/category
   
       * peak.running.commands
   
  Targeted for 0.5 Beta 1         - Add "error formatting" and "error reporting" services
   
     * Up-to-date reference docstrings for all packages         - Add option parsing framework based on optparse (backported to 2.2)
   
     * Finish tutorial chapter 2 (?)      * peak.binding
   
     * Web publishing framework sufficient to deploy page-based or object-        - Cleanup/document attribute binding interface
       published apps  
   
       * peak.running.timers
   
         - Factor out state into separate object so timers aren't shared state
   
         - Look at possible integration of peak.query and cursor formatters, in
           order to view stats as an in-memory mini-DB w/reporting.
   
   
       * Transaction/storage refactorings
   
  Targeted for 0.5 Final Release (or sooner)        - transaction scopes for commands and tasks
   
     peak.storage        - integrate locks with transactions
   
         - unit tests for more complex object scenarios: references, thunks..?        - transactable persistent queues
   
     peak.naming        - DM.find()/DM.get() queries
   
         - useful example "flat" naming context (e.g. like AppUtils.URLkeys)      * peak.web
   
         - useful example hierarchical naming context (e.g. like JNDI's LDAP         - clean up DOMlet parse/build framework (e.g. add line number info, make
           context or a filesystem context)           'define' clauses allow multiple names)
   
         - rework smtp: to return a factory object that supports open().         - default error templates, w/useful info
           Also think about whether smtp should move elsewhere. Maybe  
           there should be peak.network or peak.internet for things like  
           smtp, ftp, etc contexts?  
   
         - add in Ty's cool "n2" (Namespace Navigator) shell for working with         - A set of simple, basic form controls that handle value rendering only
           naming providers.           (form metadata, validation, etc. will be handled by peak.web.forms in
            a later release)
   
          - try/catch DOMlet (and related error rendering interface/framework)
   
  Targeted for version 0.6         - allow use of // in DOMlets' data paths, to access resource space
   
    * Get XMI writing in place, w/transaction support         - DOMlets for layout/region, as defined in "A layout framework":http://www.eby-sarna.com/pipermail/transwarp/2003-August/000684.html
   
    * Generate UML 1.5 and CWM 1.0 and 1.1, and add them to the         - conditional GET support (last modified/ETag) for static resources
      'setup.py' package lists.  
   
    * On-the-fly class combination (think "runtime module inheritance",         - image resources
      but possibly without the modules) for DMs.  
   
    * Lock management interfaces/API for peak.storage         - the return of the Specialist
   
    * Make 'cluster' parser complain about things that would cause      * Have a way to easily in-line custom component usage (e.g. automatically
      the clusterit tools to choke or barf on the file, or which would        create a subclass component with specified 'Obtain' or 'Make' bindings to
      produce ambiguous or unintended results.  (Or replace with ZConfig        get its configuration).
      schema that can generate clusterit files.  And/or replace clusterit  
      tools with PEAK ones.)  
   
   
  Future Releases  
   
   (Note: some of the below is held-over from TransWarp and may no longer be  
   relevant as written, they are being kept on this list as placeholders for  
   ideas or problem areas that may need to be re-considered in future.)  
   
   Miscellaneous  
   
     * Functional tests that access "real" databases, LDAP, etc.  
   
   Simulator/Module Inheritance  
   
     * Allow 'declareModule()' to bootstrap non-existent modules; this might  
       let us create "virtual packages" made by assembling other packages and  
       modules.  
   
     * Need a strategy for handling "del" operations; they are currently  
       untrapped.  This might be okay under most circumstances, but need to  
       consider edge cases.  
   
     * 'makeClass()' should probably become part of the core API, where  
       it can be used to resolve __metaclass__ conflicts during the first  
       pass of importing a module (prior to running 'setupModule()')  
   
   
   Messaging/ObjectSpaces  
   
     * Support for sending and receiving remote cache invalidation  
       messages between DataManagers.  
   
       * Drop 'persistence' package, since ZODB 4 has been derailed.  Change to
         "state-delegation" model, which will integrate better with 'peak.query'.
   
   
    Targeted for 0.5 Beta 1
   
       * Up-to-date reference docstrings for all packages
   
       * Finish tutorial chapter 2 (?)
   
       * Web publishing framework sufficient to deploy page-based or object-
         published apps
   
   
   
    Targeted for 0.5 Final Release (or sooner)
   
       peak.storage
   
           - unit tests for more complex object scenarios: references, thunks..?
   
   peak.model      peak.naming
   
     * Implement WarpCORE-oriented structural model, w/Querying support  
   
     * "Indexed" version of in-memory model?  
   
   
     Queries  
   
        * Refactor to use interfaces, if appropriate  
   
        * Incorporate into AbstractModel?  
   
          - Pros:  
   
            * Queries always available  
   
            * Each StructuralModel implementation can easily include its own  
              performance-tuned version of the basic items.  
   
          - Con: default implementation doesn't perform well on large datasets  
   
        * How much of framework needs extensibility?  Should the predicate  
          classes be placed in the StructuralModel's namespace so that predicates  
          have their meaning assigned by the StructuralModel implementation?  
   
           - useful example "flat" naming context (e.g. like AppUtils.URLkeys)
   
           - useful example hierarchical naming context (e.g. like JNDI's LDAP
             context or a filesystem context)
   
           - rework smtp: to return a factory object that supports open().
             Also think about whether smtp should move to peak.net?
   
   
   
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   peak.metamodels.uml  
   
     * Helper methods in Elements & Services for marshalling, common queries, etc.  
   
     * Generator framework   Targeted for version 0.6
   
       - Tagged values in stereotypes vs. main values?     * Functional/acceptance tests that access "real" databases, LDAP, etc.
   
       - Should tagged values be copied directly into templates?  Treated as     * Get XMI writing in place, w/transaction support
         Python expressions?  
   
       - Should Services be generated using an Element class' "static"     * Generate UML 1.5 and CWM 1.0 and 1.1, and add them to the
         (class-scope) methods/attributes?       'setup.py' package lists.
   
         - Are association-ends scoped?     * On-the-fly class combination (think "runtime module inheritance",
        but possibly without the modules) for DMs.
   
         - Would it be better to seperate them?     * Lock management interfaces/API for peak.storage
   
       - What determines whether an implemented Service actually stores objects     * Support for sending and receiving remote cache invalidation
         or delegates this to its subclass services?       messages between DataManagers.
   
     * Simple Zope product demo (upload XMI, then browse the model via the web)     * Make 'cluster' parser complain about things that would cause
        the clusterit tools to choke or barf on the file, or which would
        produce ambiguous or unintended results.  (Or replace with ZConfig
        schema that can generate clusterit files.  And/or replace clusterit
        tools with PEAK ones.)
   
   
   


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