Perl > pod-people > December 2001

Now that perlpodspec has (hopefully) come to clear up some of the nastily hazier aspects of Pod processing, I have starting wondering: what next? And the answer I keep coming up with is this: writing ...

This may sound a bit strange from the person who wrote pod2pxml as well as pxml2pod, but: Does anyone out there (on pod-people or elsewhere) really want to write podly documentation in XML syntax? ...

----- Forwarded message from Steven W McDougall <swmcd@TheWorld.com ----- From: Steven W McDougall <swmcd@TheWorld.com To: bradapp@enteract.com Subject: Pod::Usage bug Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:40:35 ...

something like this? WriteMakefile( 'NAME' = 'My::Package', 'VERSION_FROM' = 'Package.pm', # ... # additional targets 'depend' = { # update the pod2text README and HTML from the embedded pod 'pod' = ...

Can we talk a little about the POD::Rtf mess please? I had a look at the Pod::Simplify version today and fixed it's POD::RTF a bit. But I had to rename it to POD::SimplifyRTF because of nameclashes ...

I've been poking lightly at some test failures we were seeing locally. The tests assume that Pod::Text for versions of perl 5.005_58 will behave just as Pod::PlainText does. Here it doesn't, ...

Sooner or later I'll stop making dumb little documentation mistakes and thereby stop having to release new versions for a bit. :) Includes the fallback patch for Pod::Text::Termcap on VMS so that the ...