User:Sam/TODO/Tasks

Here's a list of tasks that are pretty helpful for contributors or developers to participate with.

In particular, for people interested in gaining a lot of experience, as some of these involve working across the tree and solving a variety of problems.

Deprecations:

• Porting away from EAPI 5
• Finally killing games.eclass!
• Modernising autotools-utils.eclass consumers (replacement: autotools.eclass)
• Modernising cmake-utils.eclass consumers (replacement: cmake.eclass)
• Removing eutils.eclass inherits - shouldn't be needed now (replacement: depends on functions used. a lot are now built into EAPIs.)
• Removing multilib.eclass inherits - often not needed as it used to provide get_libdir, now part of EAPIs (replacement: depends on functions used. a lot are now built into EAPIs.)

(See pkgcheck's pkgcheck scan -c InheritsCheck, but needs pmaint to generate metadata.)

Looking ahead:

• -fno-common and GCC 10 bugs

Misc:

• Ensuring build systems (and init scripts) work with /bin/sh != bash

Repetitive:

• colon-in-CFLAGS