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 $^E does not work
21 - select() does not work (not our fault)
22 - starting external application: what now (0.1.0) works is:
25 - and those with arguments:
26 - system("app arg1 arg2")
27 - system("app arg1 arg2 &")
28 but remember that a Symbian process does get only argv[0]
29 and argv[1]: all the arguments of the application are passed
30 in as a single argument, the second one ("arg1 arg2" in the above)
33 - piped open, in either direction
35 - fork/wait (these unlikely to ever work as in POSIX)
36 - IO redirection or filename globbing in system()
37 (since there is no POSIX shell beneath)
38 What might work in future:
39 - some I/O redirection
40 - exec() might be made to work
41 - Symbian::spawn("cmd args") returning a process id (what does Win32 do?)
42 - Symbian::waitpid($spawned_pid)
46 - in S60 1.2 (at least in 3650 Nokia 3650 v3.11) setjmp/longjmp is
47 fragile (see Symbian FAQ-0929), intensive debugging and fix needed
48 - in S60 2.6 (at least in Nokia 6630 v4.03.11) launching scripts via
49 FExplorer does not open up the console
50 - in the SDK the build creates DLLs in the system area
51 (e.g. epoc32\release\thumb\urel\io.dll), this is dangerous. Prefix them?
52 (needs changes in xsbuild and DynaLoader/XSLoader)
56 - Symbian has Unicode filenames, and Unicode all over the place.
57 - Encode and the use of Symbian Unicode in general
58 tie into the overall usefulness of PerlIO.
62 - Slash versus Backslash: where does one need to use "\\"?
63 writing Perl applications, where can one get away with using "/" ?
67 - make xsbuild.pl much more robust (for building external extensions)
68 - MakeMaker? Pure PM, PM + XS?
69 - currently the PerlApp UID is in both config.pl (hardwired) and
70 in makesis.pl (computed), this is quite error prone
71 - Enable building also under Cygwin?
75 - subdivide perlext.sis?
76 - pm-stripper: strip pod and comments, while inserting the appropriate
77 #line commands to keep linenumbers in sync. Shaves off easily 50%
78 of the code, making install packages smaller.
79 - Get MakeMaker to create SIS packages? In non-Win32?
80 - Symbian has APIs for opening .zip files
81 - Investigate Autrijus Tang's PAR format
82 http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/
86 - review for proper Symbian coding practices
90 - In "Run" see how one could show also the file extensions.
91 - when autostarting also offer to display the file (via Notes?)
92 instead of installing/running it?
93 - Allow passing command line options to scripts being run?
94 - Add "OneLiner" menu item? (-e, -M) (requires a UI form)
95 - Terminate/Pause menu entries?
96 - review for proper Symbian coding practices
100 - Fix Devel::PPPort (worth it?) (Note that there is D::PPP 3.x out by now)
101 - Fix Encode to not to have writeable data: seems to be tricky indeed
102 because of copious global non-const data.
103 - Verify that the modified File::Spec::Win32 does work in Symbian.
104 (File::Spec::Epoc does not seem to be relevant?)
105 - What does Cwd really do since the concept of cwd is a bit fuzzy in Symbian.
106 - What should Sys::Hostname return? GPRS? BT? WLAN?
107 - ByteLoader problem: byterun.c does not see VERSION and XS_VERSION.
108 - POSIX problem: STDLIB POSIX is not that POSIX.
110 =head1 REGRESSION SUITE
112 - how to run the standard test suite on a Symbian device?
114 =head1 CPAN LIBRARIES
116 - Include/Package more modules (or work harder on getting CPAN.pm working?)
117 (but note that lib/**/*.pm is 3.5 megabytes, probably not worth including
118 all of it, even after pm-stripping):
122 - Term::ReadKey (useless?)
123 - Term::ReadLine (useless?)
131 - 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)