T2 SDE Releases

.Plan - the Roadmap ...

add support for system builds of other OpenSource kernel like Minix, Hurd, *BSD, Haiku, (Open) Darwin or Open Solaris
add support for non-system builds like building packages in Mac OS X. Solaris or even Microsoft Windows
relocatable toolchain so that the resulting build and toolchain and be moved to other locations to continue building or sharing with other people

GCC-4.3
no static build priority - instead sophisticated dependency analysis is always used
parallel building non-depending packages on SMP machines
revisited configuration system, that is magnitudes (at least) faster
stronger checksums for the .desc file's Download tags, such as MD5 and/or SHA1, etc. Probably to be specified in the way Apache encodes the algorithm in the .htpasswd files, like [D] {SHA}9876543120 http://whatever.tld/file...
targets will select to-be-built packages by specifying dependency nodes rather than by static regular expressions alike list
revisited post-install / STONE stuff ...
rewritten / replaced next generation installer, including support for binary-diffs / deltas
integration of an graphical installer
integration of optional graphical boot sequence (userspace bootsplash)
detailed and generic multilib configuration as proposed here
build system rewrite (more parts in Lua, ...)
no build as root: everything is always cross-built using a single code-patch as ordinary user
optional graphical configuration system (e.g. Eclipse integration)
optional graphical dependency visualization (especially for end-user Emerge)
new init template system to generate runit and minit configuration automatically, likewise