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| author | Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> | 2013-05-08 22:58:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> | 2013-05-08 22:58:32 +0200 |
| commit | e0a1dec53b09cce9599bf3cb924f9ec3eb3105fe (patch) | |
| tree | 57c3db90597c37a52b323b9685ba08785228dfd9 | |
| parent | 4d74c8ebb8dca8e29da523825c29e9ac6c53e463 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e0a1dec53b09cce9599bf3cb924f9ec3eb3105fe.tar.gz | |
Officially deprecate stdio/sfio builds of perl
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index be54f75630..abfe2e8fae 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -678,6 +678,15 @@ by white space or comments in C<(?...)> regular expression constructs. Similarly, if the C<(> and C<*> are separated in C<(*VERB...)> constructs. +=head2 Pre-PerlIO IO implementations + +Perl supports being built without PerlIO proper, using a stdio or sfio +wrapper instead. A perl build like this will not support IO layers and +thus Unicode IO, making it rather handicapped. + +PerlIO supports a C<stdio> layer if stdio use is desired, and similarly a +sfio layer could be produced. + =head1 Future Deprecations =over @@ -715,17 +724,6 @@ ticket|https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=96212>. =item * -sfio, stdio - -Perl supports being built without PerlIO proper, using a stdio or sfio -wrapper instead. A perl build like this will not support IO layers and -thus Unicode IO, making it rather handicapped. - -PerlIO supports a C<stdio> layer if stdio use is desired, and similarly a -sfio layer could be produced. - -=item * - C<microperl>, long broken and of unclear present purpose, will be removed. =item * |