what next?

[Ronald Maas]

Vlad Skvortsov wrote:
> Ivan Glushkov wrote:
>   
>> On 4/16/07, Vlad Skvortsov <vss at 73rus.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Ivan Glushkov wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Three new ideas:
>>>>
>>>> * add Windows compatibility. Not by patch-available-scheme, but as
>>>> part of ditrack-compatibilities
>>>>         
>>> Yep, I agree that it's important. i#152 is opened for 0.6.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> * add highlighting scheme. As in gentoo-portage system.
>>>>         
>>> To recap for others on the list (as far as I understand): this is about
>>> highlighting the 'dt' output in the terminal. I think the 'right' way to
>>> do this is actually to implement XML printout in the 'dt' and create
>>> some kind of frontend to parse that XML and highlight the output
>>> accordingly. We'll need to support XML output at some point anyway.
>>> Opinions?
>>>       
>> agree. New issue?
>>     
>
> Opened i#156.
>
>   
>>>> * add opportunity for search in issues' comments.
>>>>
>>>> To my mind first idea has  the highest priority and will require a
>>>> crumb of changes.
>>>> What do you think?  Should we add them to our todo list?
>>>>         
>>> Yes, it's certainly a valuable addition, but it requires some effort. I
>>> believe it should be considered after we are done with i#146 (local
>>> indexing/caching).
>>>       
>> we might create new issue here too not to forget this idea?
>>     
>
> Opened i#157.
>
>   

Excellent. Things that I would like to see to make it a more mature 
product, would be to dynamically add fields (I believe this is issue 
i#143), also the ability to dynamically change the fields that are shown 
with dt ls.
XML support is also something that I believe would be good.


Regards,

Ronald