Release 1.0 Plan

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Dibyendu Majumdar edited this page Nov 7, 2018 · 5 revisions

Ravi Release 1.0 plan

Following are must-have goals for release 1.0:

Complete the implementation of new OMR JIT
Create user manual and documentation for Ravi
Finalize the bytecode names - DONE
Finalize the public C api
Implement the removal of string arithmetic to string metatable as per Lua 5.4 - DONE
Enable ability to create / compile C functions using dmr_C, and document the api

Subsequent releases

Complete the Ravi-Distro documentation
Fast C call implementation to cover some of the built-ins including slice
Refactor array types to make them more like userdata structure
Port some of the library features of Lua 5.4 such as random number generator
Add libyue to Ravi-Distro
Implement 5.1 compatibility layer (fenv and others) - ideally Ravi should be able to pass the Lua 5.1 test suite
Implement new byte codegen for Ravi