On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:56:11 +0000
Dave Mitchell <da...@iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 07:24:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce release 4.07 of podlators.
> >
> > podlators contains Pod::Man and Pod::Text modules which convert POD
> > input to *roff source output, suitable for man pages, or plain text. It
> > also includes several subclasses of Pod::Text for formatted output to
> > terminals with various capabilities. It is the source package for the
> > Pod::Man and Pod::Text modules included with Perl.
> >
> > Changes from previous release:
> >
> > [Pod::Man] Avoid undefined variable warnings when determining the
> > title for a Perl module at the top level of a distribution. Thanks,
> > Dave Mitchell. (#112625)
> >
> > [Pod::Man] Fix font resets with nroff when fixed-width fonts are used
> > in the label for an =item. Previously, italic was being ended with
> > \f(CW even in nroff mode, which, with groff, only changes the font to
> > fixed-width and doesn't reset to a non-italic font. Thanks, Paul
> > Townsend. (#98199)
> >
> > [Pod::Man] Suppress warnings about a missing Encode module if
> > PERL_CORE is set in the environment. Due to build ordering during
> > Perl core builds, Encode is expected to not yet be available during
> > the build step that sets PERL_CORE. Thanks, Dave Mitchell.
>
> I vote for this being merged into blead despite the code-freeze. I can
> vouch for the 1st and 3rd fixes, I know nothing about the second.
>
Sounds good. I approve of it as well. +1.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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