Perl > pod-people > November 2002

Dear all, now (at least) I understand the process and the history of the Pod::* "divergence" much better. And I do not see any issue that's worth fighting ;-) The previous statements on this thread ...

I just checked: only named entities are recognized by pod2man. For example "ï" is converted to "i\*:". This causes groff to render this character as "ie". The groff_char manpage suggests to use ...

Does anyone have a favorite Pod-to-Postscript formatter? I could have sworn that one was in the podlators, or in the Perl core, but no such luck. I just finished giving HTML::FormatPS a makeover -- ...

The following patch makes PodParser-1.20 build and test cleanly on perl 5.005. I hope you can apply it, since this version of perl is still commonly used on many servers. It's only a patch to one set ...

In Pod::Simple::BlackBox this code if(!$self- {'in_pod'}) { if($line =~ m/^=([a-zA-Z]+)/s) { if($1 eq 'cut') { $self- scream( $self- {'line_count'}, "=cut found outside a pod block. Aborting ...

First of all, there is something to fix in the module: ! "my" variable $index masks earlier declaration in same scope at PerlFunc.pm line 161. ! Anyway... I've started a pod translation project and ...

This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See http://testers.cpan.org/ Please cc any replies to cpan-testers@perl.org to ...

wrote on Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:50:34 -0800: Have you looked at perlpodspec, and had a look at the new Pod::Simple formatters? I like tables, but it is sheer agony to produce tables in many output ...

Hello, seems that Perl on MacOS differs somewhat wrt. file paths/locations/... As I do not have a MacOS system, please provide the following info: perl -e 'print "$^O $^X\n"' perl -MConfig -e 'print ...

Pod::Simple 0.96 is entering CPAN. A few new minor features -- but almost every file has changed because I documented things! Pod::Simple and Pod::Simple::Subclassing are about the only things whole ...

An interesting post the other day: -- Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

Pod::Perldoc 3.05 alpha is entering CPAN now, and also available at: http://members.spinn.net/~sburke/Pod-Perldoc-3.05.tar.gz Changes: 2002-11-11 Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org * Release 3.05 alpha. * ...

So I refactored and generally refunkified Perldoc. It seemed a good idea at the time. You know, like World War One! I've got an alpha version entering CPAN as Pod-Perldoc-3.04.tar.gz, also available ...

Trying to make Pod::Checker 1.4 on MacOS X with my own Perl 5.8.0 fails: test Pod::Checker Running test for module Pod::Checker Running make for B/BR/BRADAPP/PodParser-1.20.tar.gz Is already ...