Version 2 (modified by allison, 13 years ago)

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* Convert I/O layers to I/O objects.

* Make 'print' and 'say' stringify the same way. (See RT #55196)

* Decide if we plan to use AIO before the 1.0 release. (See RT #57920)

* Change 'fprintf' to 'PIO_fprintf' where relevant.

* Plain %s in parrot printf-alike functions do not handle NULL C strings well. Fix.

* Remove deprecated opcode 'pioctl', and fix related documentation. (See RT #48589)

General:

* All 'PIO_*' functions change to 'Parrot_io_*'. (Since the implementation is completely changing, better to create new functions with the new names than to change the names of existing functions.)

* Continue to support different I/O operations on different platforms. Possibly via roles applied to the IO PMC, or possibly just using C '#ifdef's within specific functions.

* Remove src/io/io_passdown.c and src/io/io_layers.c, purely implementation artifacts of I/O layers implementation.

* Remove src/io/io_mmap.c, unused and not useful.

* Change src/io/io_string.c to a subclass of FileHandle PMC, that provides the same interface, but to a string instead of a file handle.

* src/io/io_unix.c is the guts of most I/O on most platforms. src/io/io_win32.c is Windows. src/io/io_stdio.c is STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR. These three need to be ported to the new system.

* src/io/io_utf8.c is really the wrong way to go about it. Filehandles should be marked with character set and encoding similar to strings.

PMCs:

<strike>* Create a PMC named "IO", the base object for I/O operations.</strike>

* Create a PMC named "FileHandle", as a core file handle object, which can be subclassed by various HLLs.

* Create a subclass of "FileHandle" called "StandardIO" or something like that, to hold STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.

* Create a PMC named "Socket", as a core socket object, which can be subclassed by various HLLs.

src/io/io.c:

* Split into two files src/io/file.c and src/io/network.c. (Since the implementation is completely changing, better to create new files with the new function names, rather than changing the names of existing files.) include/parrot/io.h:

* Rip out the layers structures and macros. (After the migration is complete.)