Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-02-21 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Sean M. Burke wrote: I kinda passed off perlpodspec to... whoever... I'm pretty sure I did, to somebody…. I believe it is now part of the core Perl distribution; I don't believe it ships with Pod::Simple anymore. Which I think is the right thing to do. But I'll

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Karl Williamson wrote: The new Pod:Parser has just been installed in blead, and about 10 pods run afoul of this new check, including things like Lperl...@perl.org|mailto:perl...@perl.org My question is should there really be a message for this kind of use,

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com wrote: Version 1.50 of Pod::Parser adds a check and message indicating that Ltext|hyperlink is deprecated.  This is based on the following sentences in perlpodspec, which has been there since its inception in 2001:

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Karl Williamson wrote: So, you're saying I believe the text in perlpodspec that was the motivation for these changes should be removed, and that Pod::Parser should revert to its old behavior of not checking for this. Is that so? I can’t parse that sentence,

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Your rant against man pages is somewhat undermined by the fact that I, as maintainer of Pod::Man, have supported anchor text for URL L links from the beginning and opposed this restriction from the start. The restriction

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread Marek Rouchal
Von: Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com An: David E. Wheeler da...@justatheory.com CC: pod-people@perl.org, Perl5 Porters perl5-port...@perl.org, marek.rouc...@gmx.net Betreff: Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks On 01/23/2012 11:03 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Jan 23, 2012

Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-23 Thread Karl Williamson
Version 1.50 of Pod::Parser adds a check and message indicating that Ltext|hyperlink is deprecated. This is based on the following sentences in perlpodspec, which has been there since its inception in 2001: Authors wanting to link to a particular (absolute) URL, must do so only with

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-23 Thread Karl Williamson
On 01/23/2012 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Karl Williamson wrote: The new Pod:Parser has just been installed in blead, and about 10 pods run afoul of this new check, including things like Lperl...@perl.org|mailto:perl...@perl.org My question is should there

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-23 Thread Ricardo Signes
* Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com [2012-01-23T12:26:27] So, you're saying I believe the text in perlpodspec that was the motivation for these changes should be removed, and that Pod::Parser should revert to its old behavior of not checking for this. After all the care taken to be sure

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com writes: Version 1.50 of Pod::Parser adds a check and message indicating that Ltext|hyperlink is deprecated. This is based on the following sentences in perlpodspec, which has been there since its inception in 2001: Authors wanting to link to a