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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
November 18, 2003 02:39
Subject:
perl 5.6.3 to support =head3 etc? (was: DBI docs volunteer offer)
Message ID:
20031118103831.GC12728@dansat.data-plan.com
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:08:11PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> Terrence Brannon wrote:
> 
> >Currently the DBI database and statement handle methods are documented 
> >using
> >
> >=over 4
> >
> >=item
> >
> >But I would like to rework the 1.38 docs so that =head3 tags are used.
> >
> >This will make the table of contents much more useful for drilling down 
> >to a particular method.
> 
> Agreed, but unfortunately, Perl 5.6.1 doesn't support =head3 and 
> =head4 so I had to back those changes out of DBI::DBD.  Until DBI 
> only supports 5.8.x or later, we're stuck with just =head1 and =head2.

I'm hoping perl 5.6.3 will support =head3 and =head4 as many modules
are using them already.  If it does then I'd look again at this issue
for the DBI.

Meanwhile, thanks for the offer Terrence.

Tim.

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