5 - The Console only does "ASCII" input: e.g. pressing the "2"
6 key five times, "aaaaa", does not produce "รค" ("a diaeresis"),
7 but instead the "2" key rotates through "abc2abc2...".
8 This is a pity because the Console is actually capable of full
9 Unicode input and output (if you have the fonts, that is). You
10 can verify this by entering e.g. the euro character, which is
11 U+20AC, well beyond U+00FF. I don't know why the full repertoire
12 of the keyboard is not available.
13 - Enhance the console? (line editing, full x-y movement, history)
14 - The role of the console needs to be rethought: the best way
15 would be to have the console visible in the same screen as
16 the GUI elements (an "embedded console"?)
20 - the $^E does not work
21 - select() does not work (not our fault)
22 - starting external application: what now (0.1.0) works is:
25 - and those with arguments:
26 - system("app arg1 arg2")
27 - system("app arg1 arg2 &")
28 but remember that a Symbian process does get only argv[0]
29 and argv[1]: all the arguments of the application are passed
30 in as a single argument ("arg1 arg2" in the above)
32 - piped open, in either direction
34 - fork/wait (these unlikely to ever work as in POSIX)
35 - IO redirection or filename globbing in system()
36 (since there is no POSIX shell beneath)
37 What might work in future:
38 - exec() might be made to work
39 - Symbian::spawn("cmd args") returning a process id (what does Win32 do?)
40 - Symbian::waitpid($spawned_pid)
44 - in S60 1.2 (at least in 3650 Nokia 3650 v3.11) setjmp/longjmp is
45 fragile (see Symbian FAQ-0929), intensive debugging and fix needed
46 - in S60 2.x (at least in Nokia 6630 v4.03.11) launching scripts via
47 FExplorer does not open up the console
51 - Symbian has Unicode filenames, and Unicode all over the place.
52 - Encode and the use of Symbian Unicode in general
53 tie into the overall usefulness of PerlIO.
57 - Slash versus Backslash: where does one need to use "\\"?
58 writing Perl applications, where can one get away with using "/" ?
62 - make xsbuild.pl much more robust (for building external extensions)
63 - MakeMaker? Pure PM, PM + XS?
64 - currently the PerlApp UID is in both config.pl (hardwired) and
65 in makesis.pl (computed), this is quite error prone
66 - Enable building also under Cygwin?
70 - subdivide perlext.sis?
71 - pm-stripper: strip pod and comments, while inserting the appropriate
72 #line commands to keep linenumbers in sync. Shaves off easily 50%
73 of the code, making install packages smaller.
74 - Get MakeMaker to create SIS packages? In non-Win32?
75 - Symbian has APIs for opening .zip files
76 - Investigate Autrijus Tang's PAR format
77 http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/
78 - "makeplsis" to wrap a script.pl or dir/script.pl as a stand-alone
79 application (and SIS): unshift the "application home" to @INC and
80 chdir to that, then run the script.pl (renamed as default.pl)
84 - review for proper Symbian coding practices
88 - In "Run" see how one could show also the file extensions.
89 - when autostarting also offer to display the file (via Notes?)
90 instead of installing/running it?
91 - Allow passing command line options to scripts being run?
92 - Add "OneLiner" menu item? (-e, -M) (requires a UI form)
93 - Terminate/Pause menu entries?
94 - review for proper Symbian coding practices
98 - Fix Devel::PPPort (worth it?) (Note that there is D::PPP 3.x out by now)
99 - Fix Encode to not to have writeable data: seems to be tricky indeed
100 because of copious global non-const data.
101 - Verify that the modified File::Spec::Win32 does work in Symbian.
102 (File::Spec::Epoc does not seem to be relevant?)
103 - What does Cwd really do since the concept of cwd is a bit fuzzy in Symbian.
104 - What should Sys::Hostname return? GPRS? BT? WLAN?
105 - ByteLoader problem: byterun.c does not see VERSION and XS_VERSION.
106 - POSIX problem: STDLIB POSIX is not that POSIX.
108 =head1 REGRESSION SUITE
110 - how to run the standard test suite on a Symbian device?
112 =head1 CPAN LIBRARIES
114 - Include/Package more modules (or work harder on getting CPAN.pm working?)
115 (but note that lib/**/*.pm is 3.5 megabytes, probably not worth including
116 all of it, even after pm-stripping):
120 - Compress::Zlib (zlib?) (there is builtin gz support)
121 - Term::ReadKey (useless?)
122 - Term::ReadLine (useless?)
130 - Crypt::SSLeay? (ssl?)
137 - XML? XML::Simple? (expat?) (there is builtin xml support)
140 - DBD::SQLite? (sqlite?)
143 =head1 FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
145 - Remote console (Bluetooth/IR)