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Re: Why does Pod::Checker deprecate section numbers in links to man pages?

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 2, 2010 06:42
Subject:
Re: Why does Pod::Checker deprecate section numbers in links to man pages?
Message ID:
20100602134226.GC31795@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Marek Rouchal wrote:
> Guys, I am awfully sorry, but I am not able to follow up on
> all this. Pod::Parser is declared stable, i.e. dead since
> quite a while. The sensible solution would be to rewrite

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the confirmation.

> Pod::Checker, Pod::Usage and friends with Pod::Simple, as
> suggested by Sean M. Burke long ago, and leave Pod::Parser
> alone. Any volunteers for that?

Excellent. Sadly I don't have time to volunteer to do this, but if someone
is able to do this in the next 6 months or so, we can set things in train
to remove Pod::Parser from the core for 5.16

Nicholas Clark



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