Wallaroo Roadmap

The following gives you an outline of some of the features which are envisaged, post Wallaroo 0.8.

Features

• Add an option to use a non-intrusive mechanism at least for the creation mechanism.
• Check of the associations cardinality / optional associations [done in v. 0.3]
• Loading the classes from a dynamic loaded library (.dll or .so) [done in v. 0.4]
• (Optionally) using C++11 in the API [done in v. 0.2]

Improvements

• Add the choice whether to use shared_ptr or weak_ptr for wallaroo::Collaboration [done in v. 0.8]
• The xml wiring file is too verbose. Add a new more hermetic [custom] format [done in v. 0.8]
• XML and JSON without BOOST libraries
• Improve or change the device/plug metaphor. [done in v. 0.7]
• Remove the boost dependencies for C++0x compilers (i.e.: don't rely on boost for XML and JSON parsing)?
• Separate the creation mechanism from the Catalog class?
• Consider to pass the constructor parameters in another way. Maybe with a generic set property method or with a properties bag passed in the ctor. [done in v. 0.6]
• I definitely don't like MultiplePlug. Above all, I don't like MultiplePlug deriving from std::list. [solved in v. 0.2]
• Improve (or change) the syntax of the xml loading file. [done in v. 0.3]

Documentation and Samples

• More documentation: tutorial page and API documentation.
• More exhaustive samples [done in v. 0.3]