Re: perldoc rewrite

On 08/11/2017 11:49 AM, herbert breunung wrote:
> Dear Porters
> I posted here some weeks ago  my wish for function and var index page but the
> issue behind it turned out to be much bigger.
> Thats why I currently plan a rewrite of perldoc tool. mark and brian are on
> board and i just had fruitful discussions and input on and off YAPC  including
> damian and sawyer.
> Even it will take some time to get even a  functionaly equivalent replacement
> (first before I can add features),
> I already want to discuss with you some changes that will be needed.
> An detailed featurelsit will be posted later on blogs.perl but for now i want to
> announce the stuff that might be most disturbing from your point.
> 1. I want make parameter parsing of perldoc stricter, so only input that
> completely makes sense will be run.

This suggests the potential for extensive breakage.  Can you provide 
examples of input that currently runs but in the future may not?


> 2. at some point searchable keywords have to be included in the pod via X<> tags
> and in the main perl.POD the references to oterh pages has to be converted to
> L<...> so i can categorize them by the X<in front> to get sensible search
> categories without guessing too much,
> plus it would make it more similar what perldoc.org shows.
> 3. I need the -M key (CLI option) for module related stuff. Since sawyer already
> told me I can't have the -m
>     the -M sems a good candidate since its very rarely used (alt formatter
> Module) and the we have good precedent of changing one very seldom used flag of
> perldoc by mark in past.(sorry but details to that are at home at my main machine).
> Thanks
> Herbert
> 

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