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- Globbing support in subprojects variable [feature]
Now that we only scan top-level. Probably both * and **. Will we
automatically ignore directories that are not project? Probably. See also
prerequisite globbing.
- Redo module init structure (config first) [quality]
? Alternative/different syntax for operations on command line [idea]
Something that doesn't require quoting and maybe even parens. Some ideas:
configure[foo/@bar/]
configure{foo/@bar/}
configure: foo/@bar/ [.] # flat spec?
Would be nice to also make sure auto-completion is not inhibited.
- Value pack (comma-separated list of values) [idea]
Could be used in function calls, attributes, config initializer. Question is
whether comma will be treated as a separator in all contexts (which means it
will have to be quoted in variable values, such as options). Perhaps only
allow it in certain context (eval, attrubute)? Maybe also for certain
variable types (multi-value variables, e.g., config init).
- Config reports for test, install, and dist modules [feature]
- Handle ^C [bug]
Can we teach auto_rm to handle it? Also will need to use auto_rm in other
places (compile, cli, etc). See what GNU make does.
? Paging build2 output [idea]
Could be handy to be able to scroll back and forth and search as in less.
But we somehow need to always show the tail. Also will have to detect if it
is a redirect/non-tty (e.g., we don't want this in emacs).
? Colorized build2 output [idea]
We could highlight the tool as well as braces, @, etc.
- Support for caching discovered configuration values [idea]
The idea is to have depdb-based config.cache where we can cache things like
compiler check results that are expensive to re-calculate on every run. The
idea is to first save a checksum that determines if the cached value can be
trusted.
- VC 15 support [feature 0.5.0]
Need to install the preview, add detection, see if we can start testing with
it. Wonder if any chance for cross-compile support.
- Get rid of string pools [quality parallel]
They are most likely harmful because of the small object optimizations.
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