docs: community-driven roadmap for v1.4.0 and v1.5.0#72
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Direction for the next two milestones comes from the Show HN (96 pts) and r/retrocomputing threads, not from what dBASE III happened to have. The recurring ask across both: xBase shipped the developer's tools *with* the app, so end users could change their own forms and reports — 'still unmatched' per a 25-year FoxPro ISV. WebBase-III has the report designer and BROWSE but no form designer. v1.4.0 adds the screen painter + a catalog; v1.5.0 publishes an app to a URL. Bumps package.json to the v1.4.0 milestone version.
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docs/roadmap-v1.4-v1.5.md— the first roadmap not driven by "what did dBASE III have", but by what people who shipped xBase software for a living asked for after seeing v1.0.0.Both the Show HN (96 pts) and the r/retrocomputing thread converged, independently, on one thing — and it isn't a feature, it's a property of the environment:
xBase shipped the developer's tools with the app. WebBase-III has the report designer, the wizards and
BROWSE— but no form designer; forms only exist if you hand-write@ SAY GETinto a.prg.CREATE SCREEN/MODIFY SCREEN, emitting editable W3Script), a catalog grouping tables/screens/reports/programs into a named application, and the Assistant's JOIN + work-area wizards (Assistant: surface JOIN + Work areas/SET RELATION (needs catalog work-area state) #34).Also bumps
package.jsonto1.4.0(the milestone version, per the GitFlow convention) and updates the CHANGELOG + CLAUDE.md roadmap.Test plan
npm test— 447/447 passingnpm run build— clean