Note changes to perlvar in perldelta

[perl5.git] / pod / perltodo.pod

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 532c01b..7146010 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ programming languages offer you 1 line of immortality?
 
 =head1 Tasks that only need Perl knowledge
 
-=head2 Improve Porting/cmpVERSION.pl to work from git tags
-
-See F<Porting/release_managers_guide.pod> for a bit more detail.
-
 =head2 Migrate t/ from custom TAP generation
 
 Many tests below F<t/> still generate TAP by "hand", rather than using library
@@ -150,14 +146,6 @@ do so. Test it with older perl releases, and fix the problems you find.
 To make a minimal perl distribution, it's useful to look at
 F<t/lib/commonsense.t>.
 
-=head2 Move dual-life pod/*.PL into ext
-
-Nearly all the dual-life modules have been moved to F<ext>. However, we
-still  need to move F<pod/*.PL> into their respective directories
-in F<ext/>. They're referenced by (at least) C<plextract> in F<Makefile.SH>
-and C<utils> in F<win32/Makefile> and F<win32/makefile.ml>, and listed
-explicitly in F<win32/pod.mak>, F<vms/descrip_mms.template> and F<utils.lst>
-
 =head2 POSIX memory footprint
 
 Ilya observed that use POSIX; eats memory like there's no tomorrow, and at
@@ -338,7 +326,8 @@ visibility just to symbols declared in that file. It would be good to extend
 F<makedef.pl> to support this format, and to provide a means within
 C<Configure> to enable it. This would allow Unix users to test that the
 export list is correct, and to build a perl that does not pollute the global
-namespace with private symbols.
+namespace with private symbols, and will fail in the same way as msvc or mingw 
+builds or when using PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1.
 
 =head2 Cross-compile support
 
@@ -1261,7 +1250,8 @@ Generally make ithreads more robust. See also L</iCOW>
 This task is incremental - even a little bit of work on it will help, and
 will be greatly appreciated.
 
-One bit would be to write the missing code in sv.c:Perl_dirp_dup.
+One bit would be to determine how to clone directory handles on systems
+without a C<fchdir> function (in sv.c:Perl_dirp_dup).
 
 Fix Perl_sv_dup, et al so that threads can return objects.
 
@@ -1275,11 +1265,6 @@ it would be a good thing.
 
 Fix (or rewrite) the implementation of the C</(?{...})/> closures.
 
-=head2 A re-entrant regexp engine
-
-This will allow the use of a regex from inside (?{ }), (??{ }) and
-(?(?{ })|) constructs.
-
 =head2 Add class set operations to regexp engine
 
 Apparently these are quite useful. Anyway, Jeffery Friedl wants them.