Roadmap

PyGlossary 6.0 (2026 or 2027)

• Drop all deprecated API:

  • Remove glossary.py
    • pyglossary.Glossary will become glossary_v2.Glossary
  • info= argument to Glossary()
  • Support for format variable in plugins:
    • Users must rename it to name
  • Glossary: format arguments to read, directRead and write methods are deprecated
    • Users must rename it to formatName

• Switch to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pyglossary as config dir on Linux/BSD (core.py)

• Require Python 3.11 or later

• Switch to toml for config file (use tomllib from standard lib)

• Config: replace skip_resources with resources:

  • --skip-resources flag becomes --no-resources

• Config: replace color.* keys with new keys

  • color.enable.cmd.unix -> cmd.color.enable.unix
  • color.enable.cmd.windows -> cmd.color.enable.windows
  • color.cmd.critical -> cmd.color.critical
  • color.cmd.error -> cmd.color.error
  • color.cmd.warning -> cmd.color.warning

• Aard2 Writer: remove .slob file (if exists) before write (to avoid error).

• Kobo Writer: create zip file automatically (in place of the folder, without giving .zip extension)

• AppleDict writer: rename option indexes to index_lang

• Add glossary_v3.py: break Glossary class functionality up into several classes, for example

  • GlossaryConvertor
  • GlossaryCreator
  • MemoryLoadedGlossary
  • SQLiteLoadedGlossary

StarCalendar 4.0 (2025 or 2026)

• Migrate from Gtk3 to Gtk4

• Migrate from json to toml for config files

  • tomllib from Python 3.11+ can parse, but not encode/dump
  • Package toml, Github: @uiri/toml
    • Github repo has no commit since 2023/10/11
    • Fedora: python3-toml package will be deprecated in Fedora 38. The upstream toml package is considered unmaintained (see description) and Python 3.11 contains a TOML-reading library in the standard library. Existing Fedora packages depend on python-toml, so we cannot remove it yet. Packagers are encouraged to work with upstreams to switch to tomllib/tomli for reading toml or tomli-w for writing it. But python-toml remains available until it is a leaf package, it will be removed then (possibly not yet in Fedora 38). See source.
  • Packages toml and tomli-w
    • Github: https://github.com/hukkin/tomli
    • Comment-preserving round-trip parsing is NOT supported
    • Debian: python3-tomli and python3-tomli-w since Debian 12
    • Ubuntu: python3-tomli and python3-tomli-w since 22.04 LTS
    • Fedora: python-tomli and python-tomli-w since Fedora 43
    • ArchLinux: python-tomli and python-tomli-w since 2021
    • openSUSE: python-tomli and python-tomli-w in openSUSE Tumbleweed
      • No official repo package for Leap 15.5 or 15.6
      • https://software.opensuse.org/package/python-tomli
      • https://software.opensuse.org/package/python-tomli-w

• Migrate from bson to msgpack for event object files

• Rename Jalali calendar to Persian calendar

• Script to migrate from ~/.starcal3 to ~/.starcal4

AyanDict v3.0 (2025 or 2026)

• Migrate to miqt and Qt6 (ready)
  • Need Github action for building for Mac OS (ARM)
  • Need Github action for building for Windows (AMD64 and ARM)

starcal-server

• Migrate to GraphQL
• Try switching from MongoDB to FerretDB