[Modeling-users] A little roadmap

[Sebastien B. <sbi...@us...>]

        Hi, and all the best to you all for 2004!

Since I've been off quite a long time, I need to tidy up my brain a bit
;) hence I've just made a little roadmap/shortlist of things-to-be-done
in the immediate future, and I'd like to share it. The following tasks
are currently identified:

  - integrate John's patch for handling (py2.3) boolean values in xml
    model
    https://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D3544565&forum_id=3D106=
74

  - deprecate (remove) MDL_PERMANENT_DB_CONNECTION and replace it with
    MDL_TRANSIENT_DB_CONNECTION (which has the inverse semantics), as
    previously discussed w/ Lukasz
    https://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D3526682&forum_id=3D106=
74

  - integrate patch #771009: batch-fetch for relationships

  - integrate patch #814055: Dynamic creation of packages, modules and
    classes

  - study RFE #804243: the need to secure values in qualifiers by
    quoting them shows up regularly and should be answered. Help
    welcome!

  - RFE #855252: Model support for unique value constraint for
    attributes, proposed by Mario and discussed here
    https://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D3575938&forum_id=3D106=
74

  - consider planning the following features:

    a. support for compound PKs,
    b. support for flattened attributes,
    c. support for horizontal mapping (requires b)
    d. support for stored procedures, as discussed w/ Ezra
       https://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D3618365&forum_id=3D=
10674

  - clean up the TODO list, and make it visible from the home page.

The two first items will be in the next release. The next two ones will
also probably happen in the next release, but they won't be advertised
as such unless I find some time to write the documentation --rather
unlikely: I'd like the next release to happen soon because a lot of bug
corrections have been made since the last one was released.

  If you think I've forgotten here a request you've previously made,
  sorry, this is unintentional and it probably slipped out of my
  mind. In that case, please reply to this post or resurrect the
  corresponding thread ;)

-- S=E9bastien.