RoadMap

2.6.0 =====

• Upgrade to Python 2.6 language and builtins, along with a substantial subset of the stdlib

• Redesign PySystemState, ThreadState API

• Mark true-public APIs with a suitable annotation; deprecate and/or remove obsolete APIs

• Remove all user-visible singletons in org.python.core, especially any static public fields (like those in PySystemState)

• Performance!
• Require minimum Java 6, rip out Java 5 compatibility:
  • Generic.newSetFromMap
  • Believe we can remove the xercesImpl jar, livetribe-jsr223-2.0.5.jar
  • can start utilizing jsr199 (the Java compiler API) for certain things (mostly for unittests I believe)
  • Other things..

Who is doing what? ==================

• math module: Oti
• documentation, text_xrange.py, test_complex.py: Josh
• grammar cleanup, test_class.py: Frank
• itertools, collections: Jim
• mercurial move, abcs, exceptions, posix/ntpath, io, tarfile: pjenvey

2.6.? (TBD) ===========

• unicodedata

• cjkcodecs: yyamano

• bz2 module

• ReplaceJythonc

• MigrateBugtests

• Import Python from the classpath
• Performance improvements

Future? =======

• ctypes module

• Translate summer of code compiler to Java *Incorporated, except for pyc support