API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api
Configure
- fix the vicious cyclic multidependency of cc <-> libpth <-> loclibpth
- libswanted <-> usethreads <-> use64bitint <-> use64bitall <->
- uselargefiles <-> ...
make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
this is related to: cross-compilation configuring (see Todo)
_r support (see Todo for mode detailed description)
PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553
PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
- there already is Socket6
+ there already is Socket6 in CPAN
Long doubles
figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least
work out DLL versioning
Miscellaneous
+ introduce @( and @) because group names can have spaces
add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
sub-second sleep()? alarm()? time()? (integrate Time::HiRes?
Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but
PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION.
As of 5.6.1 there is cpp macro Perl_isnan().
fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if
- both arguments are IVs/UVs
+ both arguments are IVs/UVs: it sucks that one cannot see
+ the 'carry flag' (or equivalent) of the CPU from C,
+ C is too high-level...
replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
automate testing with large parts of CPAN
- Unicode collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
turn Cwd into an XS module? (Configure already probes for getcwd())
mmap for speeding up input? (Configure already probes for the mmap family)
sendmsg, recvmsg? (Configure doesn't probe for these but the units exist)
setitimer, getitimer? (the metaconfig units exist)
+Unicode
+ SCSU? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6/
+ Collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
+ Normalization? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
+ EBCDIC? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/
+ Regexes? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/
+ Case Mappings? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/
+
Ongoing
keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible
upgrade to newer versions of all independently maintained modules