Qompoter Roadmap

Version 0.5 - in progress, first release 2022, May

• Study: Make a study around qompoter install / qompoter update / qompoter install --save (compare with Composer, npm, yarn) and post the result into the blog. See FAQ.
• Installation: Create Debian package (in progress)
• Installation: Create Ubuntu/Snap package (?)
• Installation: Create FlatPack package (?)
• Feature: Support --save --dev option in qompoter add <packagename>
• New action: qompoter install / qompoter update (using lock file)
  • url is ok, unit test are ok, cannot download on Github?
• Feature: Propose to download source version if lib one is outdated
• Feature: Allow soft version management v2 (e.g. >=v2.1.3)
• Feature: Prevent from overriding manual changes for all packages in vendor (md5sum)
• Feature: Update automatically the inqlude repository data
• Feature: Support --no-dev option in qompoter export --repo
• Feature: Support --prefer-source option in qompoter update to prefer source packages instead over library packages
• Feature: Support CMake
• Bugfix campaign
  • Fix: Url field is not always filled in lock file
  • Fix: Add dev packages to “require-dev” in lock file and remove them from “require”
  • Fix: When using local repository, libraries are still searched first in Inqlude repository
  • Fix: If a package is manually deleted, qompoter inspect displays an unexpected error find: ‘vendor/package-dir’: No file or folder of this type
• Clean documentation and release

Version 0.4 - released 2019, December

• New action: qompoter install <packagename>
• Feature: Add --no-dep flag to not load dependencies during qompoter install or qompoter install <packagename> (alias of --depth 0)
• Feature: Add aliases for most used actions e=export, i=install, u=update
• Feature: Improve qompoter inspect (show only modified packages by default, now use --all to list all of them)

Version 0.3 - released 2017, August

• Installation: Create npm package
• New action: qompoter init
• New action: qompoter export –repo (export vendor as a re-usable Qompoter repository, nice!)
• New action: qompoter inspect (list modified packages)
• Feature: Let “qompoter install” generates md5sum + qompoter.lock
• Feature: Prevent from overriding manual changes for Git packages in vendor (git status)
• Feature: Install packages from tarball (this will also preserve symbolic links and reduce space)
• Feature: Download packages using HTTP
• Feature: More verbosity levels
• Bugfix campaign
• Clean documentation and release

Version 0.2 - released 2016, October

• Recursive dependencies
• Allow soft version management v1 (e.g. v0.2.*)
• Search in the inqlude repository
• Create auto-completion script
• Add “–no-qompote” flag
• Clean documentation and release

Version 0.1

Proof of concept.

Plan for future

• New action: qompoter release
• Installation: Create other Linux package
• Installation: qompoter self-update (from Github)
• Installation: install Qompoter though the “Qt Maintenance Tool”
• Feature: Cache downloaded packages
• Feature: Integrate automatically inqlude packages if possible (generate qompoter.pri, … ?)
• Feature: Allow soft version management v3 (e.g. ^v1.0 etc)
• Feature: Search in other package manager repositories (QPM, CPM, …)
• Feature: Increase security by checking integrity of packages (md5sum or SHA1, SHA-256, …)
• Feature: Support --force=<number> and --bypass=<number>
• Feature: qompoter install --repo vendor.zip
• Feature: add qompoter install --local / --global
• Feature: Improve qompoter export with compression / optimization
• Support extension using qompoter-command available in PATH
• Integrate automatically Qt plugins if possible (generate qompoter.pri, … ?)
• Integrate into QtCreator
• Split qompoter.sh into several files and add build step to generate qompoter.sh
• Describe and implement a “Packagist” like server for Qompoter
• Use QT += package instead of CONFIG which leverage the usage of include(vendor.pri)
• Check Windows support
• Check Mac support
• Support SVN based packages
• JSON schema for qompoter.json
• Translate doc into French
• Better documentation