Where OCX's building blocks are headed. The roadmap reaches beyond this
project: it covers the data, the code and the operating system that OCX, and
the work around it, are built on. README.md describes each
building block as it is today; PLAN.md holds this project's own
phases.
Fossil
We intend to replace our dependency on Fossil's C implementation with
an interchangeable Crystal implementation. Direct SQLite work in Crystal is
scoped to local workspace clones and offline tools, including metadata
inspection. A server-spawned CGI may inspect served metadata query-only. The
central served repository remains under the Fossil server's ownership: only
that server and programs it spawns to answer requests may open it. Agents
reach it through HTTPS sync. A future Crystal server replacement assumes the
same ownership and preserves concurrency, locking and rollback-journal
invariants. fossil remains a testing tool and fallback component.
For bulk media data, Fossil will still provide the metadata.
Fossil's file and document views are to render GPCR (below), JSON and other
formats a reader would otherwise see as plain text, as they already render
Markdown and Pikchr
(technote).
Fossil 2.27 has the parts to try first: its versionable mimetypes setting
maps a file extension to a type, and its th1-docs, th1-hooks and
th1-setup settings let TH1 take part in serving pages; Tcl, which the
technote's fuller renderer needs, is compiled into this host's fossil but
cannot load its library. Where those fall short, a renderer served as an
extension page, as OCX's console is, needs nothing of Fossil but its CGI
fields. The technote also names mimetype-override and mimetype-tile,
which Fossil 2.27 does not have.
Crystal
A visually representable subset of Crystal tentatively called GPCR
(gp-crystal) is under development to aid development by LLM agents and
reading by human agents.
Work on a Crystal compiler has started in the Crystal Robots project with the intention to make it eventually compatible with the entire GPCR subset of Crystal and to make the compiler interchangeable.
Linux
An EFI-hosted operating system built around the design details provided by Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and codified in MINIX is on the long-term roadmap. Initially, Linux would still provide device drivers while the OS acts more as a hypervisor governing only processes, but file system and network drivers will eventually be provided as well. Zephyr may be evaluated to provide broad platform support without code bloat, though its heavy tooling dependency makes it a challenging source base.