Remove :win32 PerlIO layer

3 files changed, 1 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 88df948505..df537e0bc4 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -4942,14 +4942,6 @@ and there is a bug in Perl in which the built-in regular expression
 folding rules are not accurate.  This may lead to incorrect results.
 Please report this as a bug to L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
 
-=item PerlIO layer ':win32' is experimental
-
-(S experimental::win32_perlio) The C<:win32> PerlIO layer is
-experimental.  If you want to take the risk of using this layer,
-simply disable this warning:
-
-    no warnings "experimental::win32_perlio";
-
 =item Perl_my_%s() not available
 
 (F) Your platform has very uncommon byte-order and integer size,
diff --git a/pod/perlexperiment.pod b/pod/perlexperiment.pod
index a191f70c3d..c2fb61a5e3 100644
--- a/pod/perlexperiment.pod
+++ b/pod/perlexperiment.pod
@@ -95,16 +95,6 @@ L<[perl #18755]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18755>
 
 See L<re/'strict' mode>
 
-=item The <:win32> IO pseudolayer
-
-Using this feature triggers warnings in the category
-C<experimental::win32_perlio>.
-
-The ticket for this experiment is
-L<[perl #13198]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13198>.
-
-See also L<perlrun/PERLIO>
-
 =item Declaring a reference to a variable
 
 Introduced in Perl 5.26.0
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index 5d3aa3eb3c..dfefeb5beb 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -1098,13 +1098,6 @@ X<:unix>
 
 Low-level layer that calls C<read>, C<write>, C<lseek>, etc.
 
-=item :win32
-X<:win32>
-
-On Win32 platforms this I<experimental> layer uses native "handle" IO
-rather than a Unix-like numeric file descriptor layer. Known to be
-buggy in this release (5.30).
-
 =back
 
 The default set of layers should give acceptable results on all platforms.
@@ -1120,9 +1113,7 @@ on the version and vendor of the C compiler. Using our own C<:crlf> layer as
 the buffer avoids those issues and makes things more uniform.
 
 This release (5.30) uses C<:unix> as the bottom layer on Win32, and so still
-uses the C compiler's numeric file descriptor routines. There is an
-experimental native C<:win32> layer, which is expected to be enhanced and
-may eventually become the default under Win32.
+uses the C compiler's numeric file descriptor routines.
 
 The PERLIO environment variable is completely ignored when Perl
 is run in taint mode.