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)
POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff:
POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks,
timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these)
- better shadow password support: see pp_sys.c:pp_gpwent()
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
+ there already is Socket6 in CPAN
Long doubles
figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least
64-bit support
Configure probe for quad_t, uquad_t, and (argh) u_quad_t, they might
be in some systems the only thing working as quadtype and uquadtype.
+ more pain: long_long, u_long_long.
Locales
deprecate traditional/legacy locales?
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
(no metaconfig units yet for these).
Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(), fp_class_l(), (yes, both do,
unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl().
+ 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
spot-check all new modules for completeness
better docs for pack()/unpack()
reorg tutorials vs. reference sections
+ make roffitall to be dynamical about its pods and libs
+