On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:08:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT wrote:
> Well I decided to do a little fishing ... this is apparently not a
> limitation of groff/man (which is what counts, after all) but a
> limitation of the pod2man implementation in version 5.6 of perl. Version
> 5.8 gives *four* levels of nesting;
>
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlpod.html
>
> I can go and cripple the engine.pod documentation if absolutely necessary,
> but it simply seems a somewhat shortsighted solution (even if
> alliterative :-). IIRC there was some discussion a while back about
> bundled implementations of pod2man or something like that? Could we
> simply use a 5.8-compatible bundled implementation if the host system's
> version is too old?
Hmm. This will finally come down to a compromise.
It is my impression, that perl 5.8 is not yet widely distributed.
Additionally, it is not just a question of groff/manual pages, but
also of pod2html and pod2latex, as recent discussions showed.
Best regards,
Lutz
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