Add the removal of the sfio support to perldelta.

Given that this code no longer works, it doesn't feel important to list it in
the headlines. It's not clear where the best section for it is.

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index a167726..5c4c982 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -272,6 +272,22 @@ XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below.
 [ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific
 changes as paragraphs below it. ]
 
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Code related to supporting C<sfio> has been removed.
+
+Perl 5.004 added support to use the native API of C<sfio>, AT&T's Safe/Fast
+I/O library. This code still built with v5.8.0, albeit with many regression
+tests failing, but was inadvertently broken before the v5.8.1 release,
+meaning that it has not worked on any version of Perl released since then.
+In over a decade we have received no bug reports about this, hence it is clear
+that no-one is using this functionality on any version of Perl that is still
+supported to any degree.
+
+=back
+
 =head2 New Platforms
 
 XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous