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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
March 23, 2008 12:40
Subject:
Re: pod wiki?
Message ID:
47E6B210.506@pobox.com
Reini Urban wrote:
> To Schwern about http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/
>
> It's nice to have a state-of-the-art wysiwyg wiki, but I'd vastly prefer
> a pod wiki. Isn't this possible?
Yes. Information about it is on the wiki. :P
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?podwiki
But rather than convert the whole wiki into POD, which isn't necessary the
greatest general-purpose wiki language...
> E.g. I try to create a F<perloptreeguts.pod> for core without the usual
> patches submission and review, just online community interaction. We'll
> see, just an attempt.
>
> At first I had to convert it from pod to the social text wiki syntax
> (Thanks Aristotle btw.), and now when I try to get to the real guts
> I have to convert it back from social text to pod. This drives me
> crazy.
One of the reasons I picked SocialText, aside from it being the easiest to
install, [1] is that it's written in Perl, is (now) Open Source and can be
customized.
We haven't taken advantage of that much yet. Well, seems like this is a
perfect opportunity. It is possible to write a syntax plugin that formats POD
into an HTML snippet. Here's an example of how it's done.
http://www.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?socialtext_wiki_syntax_plugin_howto
If someone would write one up we'll install it. Syntax can be as simple as:
{pod:
...your pod here...
}
POD goes in, HTML comes out.
[1] From my perspective anyway: "Kirsten, give me a wiki!"
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