Alt-IO-All-2014

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Releasing a popular module like IO::All under the dist Alt-IO-All-<tag> allows people to install a version of IO::All with a new experimental API, without worrying about introducing something that becomes a compatibility liability.

Alt-IO-All-2014 contains a placeholder no-op module called Alt::IO::All::2014 and also all the new IO::All modules. People can opt in to using it, but IO::All does not index to it.

This allows for a time period of real world testing/vetting.

With IO::All we want to break backwards compatibility. I want to reduce this as much as possible by making two usage forms:

    use IO::All;    # Make defaults as close to old as possible, and also subject to a deprecation schedule.
    use IO::All -AnyOption;   # Since we don't use (many at least) options now, an option means that you opt in to the new API.

I want to get IO::All refactored for a few things, before we allow/demand the new -Options. So we can make it available under Alt-.

We can continue releasing IO-All during this time for fixes that do not affect the API.

Also there are a few IO::All plugins that need to be moved forward in parallel.

Once everything seems stable and modern, we can delete the Alt- and release as IO-All.