René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"DotDevelop Roadmap 2023","articleBody":"This is a suggestion for DotDevelop work in 2023.  Please add comments and ideas to the initial draft below.\r\n\r\n## Current Project Status (Mar 2023)\r\n  \r\n- DotDevelop will now load, build and debug .net3.1, .net5.0, and .net6.0 programs using the Samsung NetCoreDbg debugger\r\n- The original MonoDevelop editor is used throughout (but can be slow and erratic - see 1(c) below)\r\n- more real-world testing is required to determine the limits of the package (though only DotDevelop has been used for all the debugging and progress so far, which is encouraging)\r\n\r\n## Areas for further development  \r\n\r\n### 1 - Stabilise and Consolidate existing code\r\n - a\t- fix build warnings (ideally 0 errors, 0 warnings)\r\n - b\t- add tests for the netcore 5.0+ fixes in the DotDevelop code\r\n - c\t- decide on the vs-editor-api : fix or remove completely, and sort out all current run-time exceptions\r\n - d    - should development be confined to linux only (no work on Win and Mac builds has been done to date)\r\n\r\n### 2 - Plan a route to upgrade Gtk2 to Gtk3 (using GtkSharp)\r\n -  some of the existing GUI code uses Xwt, which runs as a 'Guest', so Gtk3 and Xwt (with Gtk3 backend) can still co-exist initially\r\n -  should Xwt be retained at all in the long term?\r\n -  until the conversion to Gtk3 is complete, the User Interface should remain as it is\r\n\r\n### 3 - Update to latest versions of submodules and replace with nuget packages where possible\r\n\r\n### 4 - Rewrite IDE interfaces to clean up and improve the present codebase\r\n - Gradually rewrite the interfaces between the User and the various Integrated Packages (MSBuild, Nuget, Version Control, GUI Designer, etc).  \r\n - Only the Public API's of each package should be used, whereas at present parallel (and out-of-date) implementations exist in the DotDevelop codebase (which in many cases uses Reflection to override visibility issues)\r\n\r\n### 5 - Create a Code map/up-to-date documentation for new contributors\r\n-  essential for new developers, as the current codebase is *very* large\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/hwthomas","@type":"Person","name":"hwthomas"},"datePublished":"2023-03-21T14:43:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":50},"url":"https://github.com/109/dotdevelop/issues/109"}