2 fix small memory leaks on compile-time failures
5 finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
6 make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
7 add Unicode::Map equivivalent to core
8 add support for I/O disciplines
9 - a way to specify disciplines when opening things:
10 open(F, "<:crlf :utf16", $file)
11 - a way to specify disciplines for an already opened handle:
12 binmode(STDIN, ":slurp :raw")
13 - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors:
14 use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16"
15 eliminate need for "use utf8;"
16 autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init()
17 autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser
18 check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow
19 (see also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous")
22 support "use Thread;" under useithreads
24 - create new interpreter in a different thread
25 - exchange data between interpreters/threads
26 - share namespaces between interpreters/threads
27 work out consistent semantics for exit/die in threads
28 support for externally created threads?
32 auto-produce executable
33 typed lexicals should affect B::CC::load_pad
34 workarounds to help Win32
35 END blocks need saving in compiled output
37 fix comppadlist (names in comppad_name can have fake SvCUR
38 from where newASSIGNOP steals the field)
41 CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers when !PERL_CORE
42 header-space: move into CORE/perl/?
43 API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api
46 make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
48 cross-compilation configuring
49 POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff:
50 POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks,
51 timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these)
52 UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO
55 figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least
56 in AIX and Tru64 (V5.0 and onwards) when using long doubles: see the
57 regexp tricks we had to insert to t/comp/use.t and t/lib/bigfltpm.t.
60 deprecate traditional/legacy locales?
61 figure out how to support Unicode locales
62 suggestion: integrate the IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU)
63 http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/index.html
64 and check out also the Locale Converter:
65 http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/localeconverter
66 ICU has it all: locales and character sets, the 'iconv' seems to have
67 'only' the character sets. Either would be valuable to get integrated
68 into Perl, Configure already probes for libiconv and <iconv.h>.
69 How do locales work across packages?
72 make RE engine thread-safe
73 POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them
74 =bar= could be done with Unicode, though, see the Unicode TR #15 about
76 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
77 this is also a part of the Unicode 3.0:
78 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html
79 executive summary: there are several different levels of 'equivalence'
83 use fchown, fchmod (and futimes?) internally when possible
84 use fchdir(how portable?)
85 create secure reliable portable temporary file modules
86 audit the standard utilities for security problems and fix them
90 alternate runops() for signal despatch
91 figure out how to die() in delayed sighandler
92 make Thread::Signal work under useithreads
95 sort out the spawnvp() mess for system('a','b','c') compatibility
96 work out DLL versioning
99 add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
100 sub-second sleep()? alarm()? time()? (integrate Time::HiRes?
101 Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but
103 floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc.
104 at least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(),
105 class(), isnan(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(),
106 fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround(),
107 ieeefp.h, fp_class.h. There are metaconfig units for all of these.
108 fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if
109 both arguments are IVs/UVs
110 replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
111 automate testing with large parts of CPAN
112 Unicode collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
113 turn Cwd into an XS module? (Configure already probes for getcwd())
114 mmap for speeding up input? (Configure already probes for the mmap family)
115 sendmsg, recvmsg? (Configure doesn't probe for these but the units exist)
116 setitimer, getitimer? (the units exist)
119 keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible
120 upgrade to newer versions of all independently maintained modules
121 comprehensive perldelta.pod
124 describe new age patterns
125 update perl{guts,call,embed,xs} with additions, changes to API
126 convert more examples to use autovivified filehandles
127 document Win32 choices
128 spot-check all new modules for completeness
129 better docs for pack()/unpack()
130 reorg tutorials vs. reference sections