Goals and Roadmap

Values

• Simplicity - don't try to reproduce VS, no need to RTFM
• Agility
• Having a platform for fast development / easily grow up

Use cases

• Prototype quickly
• Build simple apps
• Write automation scripts i.e. like Ruby/Node
• Initialization like startup/bootstrapping type of things.
• Extensions / Extending an app with Script

Acceptance criteria

1. I don't need to read a manual.
2. I don't need to install anything other than scriptcs including the Roslyn CTP
3. I can see very clearly when things go wrong
4. I can include other loose scripts.
5. I can have a nuget package with scripts

Roadmap - Priority in [ ]

• [1] Validate against Packages.config - Only load packages in the config, error if packages are missing. (Filip) DONE
• [1] Includes - #Load don't reinvent / be consistent (Filip) DONE
• [1] Scriptcs API - Allows hosting Scriptcs (Justin) DONE
• [1] Validate binaries in scripts are present in bin.
• [1] Team city build. DONE
• [2] C# interactive window support (Filip)
• [2] Script packs - 3rd party plugins (Glenn) DONE
• [2] Export to exe
• [2] Export to VS Project
• [2] Sublime Text Plugin DONE

Won't do - Though community can do it with script packs.

• ASP.NET on IIS?
• MVC / Web Forms?
• Create DLLS