Roadmap

Roadmap

The current plans for future Corona IDE features. This is a rough outline - nothing is final until it ships!

Proposed Features - Unassigned

(All assigned)

0.1

Goal: A compiling, basic viewer which presents the basics of the representations in the IDE

Features

• Launcher to Start Application [(Issue #12)] (https://github.com/Corona-IDE/corona-ide/issues/12)
• UI
  • Editor [(Issue #9)] (https://github.com/Corona-IDE/corona-ide/issues/9)
  • Project (folder/file) navigation [(Issue #10)] (https://github.com/Corona-IDE/corona-ide/issues/10)
• Navigation
  • Projects [(Issue #11)] (https://github.com/Corona-IDE/corona-ide/issues/11)
    • Create New Project With Appropriate Setup
    • View Projects
    • Delete Projects

0.2

Goal: Improved basic functionality around projects

Features

• Navigation
  • Searching Within Projects
  • File navigation keyboard short cuts within Editor

Integrations

• Gradle Plugin
  • Basic Project Properties (Issue #2)

0.3

Goal: Define a robust plug-in system for use by all libraries which wish to enhance Corona IDE functionality

Features

• Plug-in APIs to enhance functionality and hook into important processes

Integrations

• Gradle Plugin
  • Environment Properties (Issue #7)

0.4

Goal: Create a the first plug-in, which will supply the basic building blocks for Java-specific development

Plug-ins

• Languages
  • Java
    • Compilation
    • Error/Warning markers
    • Support for specifying Java version
    • Classpath specification
      • Multiple classpath containers which can be used/excluded for subsets of source files (compile, test, etc) (Issue #4)

0.5: ALPHA

Goal: Write a Java Project From Scratch Within the IDE, with basic Java IDE quality-of-life features

Plug-ins

• Languages
  • Java
    • Code Completion
    • Package-style project viewing
    • Creation of new classes and other constructs
    • Running applications
      • Debugging

1.0: GA

Goal: General Productivity Features Implemented - Corona Switches to Being Developed Within Corona IDE

Features

• Ability to change/save layouts
• Navigation
  • Project Group Structure
• Code Formatting

Integrations

• Gradle Plugin for Corona Plug-in development

Plug-ins

• Source Control
  • Git Integration
• Build Systems
  • Gradle Integration

Backlog (Future Releases)

Features

• Navigation
  • File Groups and Tailored working areas (Via "Views") (Issue #5)
  • Open File Grouping (Issue #6) (Plug-in?)

Plug-ins

• API Tree view - show/construct an API path tree and allow linking to methods which implement them
  • Integrations with MVC/Restlet to automatically construct the tree
  • Implement with various views providing "providers", allow user to chose seeing "Java API", "REST API", etc
• Languages
  • Groovy
• Markdown Editing
• Build Systems
  • Maven Integration