Add autogeneration of perlmodlib.pod and the new perlnewmod.pod,

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Todo-5.6

diff --git a/Todo-5.6 b/Todo-5.6
index 35e6949..527ab82 100644 (file)
--- a/Todo-5.6
+++ b/Todo-5.6
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-Bugs
-    fix small memory leaks on compile-time failures
-
 Unicode support
     finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
     make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
@@ -13,10 +10,13 @@ Unicode support
        - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors:
            use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16"
     eliminate need for "use utf8;"
-    autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init()
     autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser
     check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow
-    (see also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous")
+    make \uXXXX (and \u{XXXX}?) where XXXX are hex digits
+       to work similarly to Unicode tech reports and Java
+       notation \uXXXX (and already existing \x{XXXX))?
+       more than four hexdigits? make also \U+XXXX work?
+    See also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous".
 
 Multi-threading
     support "use Thread;" under useithreads
@@ -47,17 +47,12 @@ Configure
        libswanted <-> usethreads <-> use64bitint <-> use64bitall <->
        uselargefiles <-> ...  
     make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
-       this is related to: cross-compilation configuring
-       host vs target: compile in the host, get the executable to the target,
-       get the possible input files to the target, execute in the target,
-       get possible output files back to to host.  this needs to work
-       both during Configure and during the build.  You cannot assume
-       shared filesystems between the host and the target, executing
-       the target executable may involve e.g. rsh
+       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()
     UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO
     IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553
 
@@ -77,15 +72,16 @@ Locales
     figure out how to support Unicode locales
        suggestion: integrate the IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU)
        http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/
-       and check out also the Locale Converter:
+               ICU is "portable, open-source Unicode library with:
+               charset-independent locales (with multiple locales
+               simultaneously supported in same thread; character
+               conversions; formatting/parsing for numbers, currencies,
+               date/time and messages; message catalogs (resources);
+               transliteration, collation, normalization, and text
+               boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break))".
+       Check out also the Locale Converter:
        http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/localeconverter
-    ICU is "portable, open-source Unicode library with:
-    charset-independent locales (with multiple locales simultaneously
-    supported in same thread; character conversions; formatting/parsing
-    for numbers, currencies, date/time and messages; message catalogs
-    (resources) ; transliteration, collation, normalization, and text
-    boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break))".
-    There is also 'iconv', either from XPG4 or GNU (glibc).
+    There is also the iconv interface, either from XPG4 or GNU (glibc).
     iconv is about character set conversions.
     Either ICU or iconv would be valuable to get integrated
     into Perl, Configure already probes for libiconv and <iconv.h>. 
@@ -111,6 +107,9 @@ Regexen
        this is also a part of the Unicode 3.0:
        http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html
        executive summary: there are several different levels of 'equivalence'
+   trie optimization: factor out common suffixes (and prefixes?)
+       from |-alternating groups (both for exact strings and character
+       classes, use lookaheads?)
    approximate matching
 
 Security
@@ -135,12 +134,14 @@ Miscellaneous
        Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but
        the units exist)
     floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc.
-       at least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(),
-       class(), isnan(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(),
-       ordered(), fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround(), 
-       ieeefp.h, fp_class.h.  There are metaconfig units for most of these.
-        Search for ifdef __osf__ in pp.c to find a temporary fix that
-       needs to be done right.
+       At least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(),
+       class(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(), unordered(),
+       <ieeefp.h>, <fp_class.h> (there are metaconfig units for all these),
+       fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround()
+       (no metaconfig units yet for these).
+        Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(), fp_class_l(), (yes, both do,
+       unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl().
+       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
     replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)