opendoors/TODO-v7.txt

Features/Changes which will break the API and so must go into v7
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- Do not pack the od_control structure in memory.  This is plain silly.
- Do not use the BOOL type in od_control or in any of the public functions.
  Using it causes problems with stuff that defines a BOOL as a different
  size.  For example, xpdev uses int as a BOOL whereas OpenDoors uses a char.
- Support telnet IAC escaping, add an item to the od_control struct to
  keep track of the current status of IAC escapes.
- Fix up the local display for Win32.  It's horribly slow currently.
  Possibly just dust of the DOS stuff and use ciolib?
- Make output functions take an optional position and attribute to cut down
  on small send()s.
- Audit for small send()s in general.
- Possibly improve the output thread and make *nix multi-threaded for block
  buffering ala Synchronet.
- Change to 24-line default.  This means fixing the personalities, and the
  screen stuff.
- Autodetect if passed handle is a socket (Like I did for MyCroft doors)
- We need some non-socket way of dealing with I/O for Win32.  Something that
  operates along the lines of stdio on *nix.  When BBSs commonly start doing
  SSH, is the door supposed to do SSH also?  A local socket would work, but it
  seems like the Wrong Thing.  The main reason stdio is out is that there's no
  standard way of passing hangup info etc.
- Check the timestamp on the dropfile... do not use an old one!  Add and
  od_control variable to prevent this behaviour.
- Add a bunch of status-line specific functions to allow new personalities:
	od_status_set_cursor()
	od_status_set_attrib()
	od_status_puttext()
	od_status_gettext()
	od_status_printf()
	od_status_disp_str()
	od_status_putch()
	od_status_addkey()
	od_status_delkey()
- OD_DISP_EMU() has problems with ANSI music (of course)