v12 roadmap

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v12 roadmap

atreyasha opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

This is a summary of planned developments leading up to v12.0.0.

Major features

Split downgrade into independent/modular scripts (eg. downgrade-search, downgrade-select and downgrade-install; see #181) and thereby address these issues:

Make fzf (and other TUIs) optional dependencies (with default package selection) and integrate into PKGBUILD
#180
Migrate to getopts to handle CLI arguments in lower-level scripts
#182
Use pacman-conf everywhere for pacman.conf parsing
#171
Reintroduce --arch CLI option and possibly arch column in selection
#185
#176
Develop a prototype version of pacignore and integrate it into downgrade
#158

Bugfixes

Use first architecture from pacman-conf Architecture
#185
Add additional check for header in case IgnorePkg string is missing in pacman.conf
#183
Catch sed error messages on invalid input
#184

Miscellaneous

Contact pacman-dev and/or pacman-contrib mailing lists to ask regarding additional pacignore script
#183
#158
Email sent to pacman-contrib mailing list, pending discussion
Implementing pacignore as part of pacman-contrib does not seem practical based on the response we received, so it makes more sense for us to implement it ourselves first and then contact the mailing list again regarding possible integration
Update URL for downgrade in PKGBUILD to github.com/archlinux-downgrade/downgrade

Feel free to add or edit these points. Thanks :)