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File: nana.info, Node: Future, Next: Index, Prev: FAQ, Up: Top
Future work
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As usual, there is more work to be done than time to do it in.
Workers or test pilots are invited to apply for the following tasks
which may get down in the fullness of time minister. I'm particularly
interested in which projects people think are worthwhile (or rubbish).
1. Ada support - pre 1.00 versions of nana provided support for
Ada. Adding a full version of nana into the GNATS compiler
would probably be useful, particularly the real time part.
2. FORTRAN support.
3. Message browsing (`emacs/fess.el') - a very prototypical mode for
browsing message logs is distributed with nana. Features include
hiding/showing lines by regular expression or predicate. If
someone who knows what they are doing rewrites this that would be
a good thing. Or perhaps a modified version of `less' would be
useful.
4. Program Visualisation (`tcl/status.c') - another prototype which
uses a small TCL/TK library and nana logging to generate some nice
pictures showing the behaviour of the program. For example the
history of variables over time can be recorded, graphs drawn and
long message logs kept. A new version of this has been created and
may be released shortly.
5. Automated Testing - combine nana logs with a workbench that lets
you verify properties of the logs using programs `gawk' or the
`PRECC' (LL infinity version of YACC). This technique has been
used on industrial strength products quite successfully.
6. GNU standards - perhaps it would be worthwhile to set up a
prototype for checking and logging in GNU tools.
7. Extend GDB(1) so that we can support `Q.h' style quantifiers in
`DI.h' expressions. Basically we need to add a restricted form of
the statement value expression to GDB.
8. Support for other (particularly ANSI only) compilers.
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