In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 30 May 2002
15:05:31 +0200, Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
moeller> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:18:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moeller>
moeller> > Log:
moeller> > Our copy of pod2man.pl is old and comparatively broken, so lets remove it.
moeller>
moeller> If our pod2man.pl is too old, we should update it if necessary.
moeller> Installations may have even older versions that don't contain all the
moeller> bugfixes we need (are all of them obsoleted by the current official
moeller> version of pod2man?), or pod2man may not be installed at all. For
moeller> example, Solaris 8 comes with /usr/bin/perl, but pod2man is not in the
moeller> standard PATH.
pod2man is a command line wrapper around Pod::Man these days, and
depends on other Pod:: modules. Do you *really* want them to be
included?
A solution I could see is to provide auxiliary packages with extra
files, like the whole pod2x packet. People would have to download
those separately and install them in some way. It's possible such a
package is already available on CPAN (which should check that out).
moeller> Removing pod2man.pl creates more problems ('make install' will fail on
moeller> many systems where it now works) than it solves (for the few people
moeller> who actually look at the manpages and have a sufficiently new version
moeller> of pod2man installed).
The more time goes, the more pod2man.pl will be deprecated and
broken. We got the first warnings now, let's not wait until it gets
out of hand, shall we? We're not mainly perl developers, after all,
and pod2x continues to develop.
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Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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