Roadmap

Plasma Roadmap

General Cleanup

• Untangle the circular pnNucleusInc and pnTimer dependency.

• Investigate changing hsThread to be a wrapper over std::thread.
  (@Zrax is working on this)

• Fix warnings from Coverity code analysis.

• Replace Ogg Vorbis with Opus for audio files.

• Replace Speex with Opus for voice chat data.

• Replace the removed Bink code with VP8 and WebM. #3

• Replace any EAX code with OpenAL EFX. #8

Kill pnUtils

• Merge pnUtils/pnUtTime stuff into pnTimer/hsTimer. #418
  (@dpogue is working on this)

• Deprecate all of pnUtils/pnUtStr by replacing uses with plString or standard C library string functions.

• Continued conversion of std::string, std::wstring, char*, and wchar* to plString when used in Plasma classes.

Kill pnAsyncCore/pnAsyncCoreExe

• Rewrite pnAsyncCore/pnAcTimer as a pnTimer class using hsThread and hsTimer.

• Rewrite most of the netcode to be based on plSockets.
  (@dpogue is semi-in-progress with this)

Cross-Platform (#5)

• Replace PhysX with Bullet. #4
  (@Deledrius has some progress here)

• Replace Win32-specific input handling with keycode.

• Port the GUI tools from Win32 over to Qt. #413
  (@zrax has done most of these)

• Pull non-DirectX-specific code from plDXPipeline into a base class. #2

• Validate the target_link_libraries for all of the Plasma sub-projects. #383

• Fix errors and warnings for the following compilers:

  • Windows:
    • MSVC (32)
    • MinGW g++ (32)
  • Macintosh OS X:
    • Xcode clang (32)
  • Linux:
    • g++ (32)
    • clang (32)
    • MinGW g++ cross-compile (32)

64-bit (#34)

• Replace PhysX with Bullet. #4
  (@Deledrius has some progress here)

• Track down and fix 32-bit assumptions throughout the codebase.
  Hint: Build with 64-bit MinGW, identify and fix 64-bit issues.

• Fix errors and warnings for the following compilers:

  • Windows:
    • MSVC (32, 64)
    • MinGW g++ (32, 64)
  • Macintosh OS X:
    • Xcode clang (32, 64)
  • Linux:
    • g++ (32, 64)
    • clang (32, 64)
    • MinGW g++ cross-compile (32, 64)