According to genehack, on May 22, 2014: > I did start on Pod::Simple::POD, but it's still a work in progress. What I've done so far is at https://github.com/genehack/pod-simple/tree/add-pod-simple-pod , should anybody want to pick it up and run with it. > I think it was mainly a matter of writing tests, but honestly it has been a while since I looked at that code.
(quotes taken from https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/issues/269) On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:06 AM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote: > I am writing concerning https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116467. > The objective of this ticket is to revise t/porting/podcheck.t so that it > no longer depends on CPAN module Pod::Parser. The latter has been > designated "legacy code" but we cannot remove it from the core distribution > until podcheck.t no longer depends on it, either directly (calls to > parse_from_filehandle) or indirectly (via an older version of Pod::Checker > which depends on Pod::Parser rather than Pod::Simple). > > While studying podcheck.t recently I noticed that we could get > substantially closer to our goal if we took the following subroutine from > podcheck.t: > > ##### > sub extract_pod { # Extracts just the pod from a file; returns undef if > file > # doesn't exist > my $filename = shift; > > my @pod; > > # Arrange for the output of Pod::Parser to be collected in an array we > can > # look at instead of being printed > tie *ALREADY_FH, 'Tie_Array_to_FH', \@pod; > if (open my $in_fh, '<:bytes', $filename) { > my $parser = Pod::Parser->new(); > $parser->parse_from_filehandle($in_fh, *ALREADY_FH); > close $in_fh; > > return join "", @pod > } > ... > ##### > > ... and could rewrite the 'if' block using a Pod::Simple-based call. > However, AFAICT there is nothing in the latest CPAN release of Pod::Simple > by which one could simple extract the POD from a file and return it as a > single string, POD-formatting intact and otherwise unmodified. > > Karl Williamson noted (https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/ > Display.html?id=116467#txn-1304150) that there have been some efforts in > this direction, citing: https://github.com/genehack/ > pod-simple/tree/add-pod-simple-pod. Could you advise as to the current > state of development of this fork and whether it is likely to be of benefit > to P5P in this instance? > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > >
