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On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 9:08 PM Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 05:53:45PM +0900, Yuki Kimoto wrote: > > 2021-10-4 5:42 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > *installhtml* — I don't think this makes sense as an experiment. We > > > should drop the experimental classification. #12726 > > > <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/12726> > > > > > > > > One by one, starting with the ones that seem to have little impact. > > > > Is there anyone who opposes this? > > I would oppose it, in its current state. The intended usage pattern and > documentation > should be sorted out first. Specifically, the current Makefile.SH says > this > > # XXX Experimental. Hardwired values, but useful for testing. > # Eventually Configure could ask for some of these values. > > Relevant excerpts from The INSTALL file: > > =item HTML pages > > Currently, the standard perl installation does not do anything with > HTML documentation, but that may change in the future. Further, some > add-on modules may wish to install HTML documents. The html Configure > variables listed above are provided if you wish to specify where such > documents should be placed. The default is "none", but will likely > eventually change to something useful based on user feedback. > > =head1 installhtml --help > > Currently, the supplied ./installhtml script does not make use of the > html Configure variables. This should be fixed in a future release. > > Configure actually does ask for some html installation variables, but > nothing uses > them. Presumably, there was a mismatch between what Configure asks for > and what > installhtml actually needed, but that mismatch was never resolved. > Recording the correct > installation location in Config.pm is useful because that would allow CPAN > modules to > reliably look up where to install HTML files. > > I think this all should be sorted out before declaring it non-experimental. > Likewise, to me it only really makes sense to install pod files as html in core if the toolchain can also do that. MakeMaker never finished adding support for it, and Module::Build's support is known to be buggy (and no one has volunteered to fix those issues in the past more than a decade). LeonThread Previous | Thread Next