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From:
Tels
Date:
March 23, 2008 14:35
Subject:
Re: pod wiki?
Message ID:
200803232233.10344@bloodgate.com
On Sunday 23 March 2008 21:16:21 Reini Urban wrote:
> Michael G Schwern schrieb:
> > 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...
>
> Well. I'm used to just pod, and it looks nice after pod2html.
>
> >> 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_plu
> >gin_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.
>
> That's awsome!
> I will see if I have enough time. The motivation is strong enough.
It is really sad to see people re-invent the wheel, just so they can do
it now in Perl :(
All the best,
Tels
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