Roadmap

The following development releases (i.e. prior to the release of v1.0) are planned:

v0.5 dip.model Review

• investigate the ability to bind to other models (e.g. SQLAlchemy)
• eliminate any dependencies on PyQt.

v0.6 dip.plugins Review

• support for discovering plugins via the dip.io module and allowing the user to enable or disable discovered plugins.

v0.7 dip.io Review

• implement import and export functions
• validate the structured storage APIs
• eliminate any dependencies on PyQt.

v0.8 dip.automate Review

• eliminate any dependencies on PyQt
• resolve outstanding issues, particularly on OS/X.

v0.9 dip-builder Review

• add support for at least one non-distutils packaging solution (e.g. PyInstaller) so that a single executable file for an application can be created with a few mouse clicks.

v0.10 Final Architecture Review

• resolve all outstanding issues. This will be a release candidate for v1.0.

In addition, the following enhancements and additional features are planned for some future version of dip:

• a user documentation system that can be extended by plugins with specific documentation
• adding support for at least one additional toolkit (e.g. PyKDE).

The above is not a complete list and does not reflect any planned order of implementation.

Suggestions for additional features are always welcome.