Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, all are reminded that the coming Saturday is the end of the
> two-week period for comments on draft 1 of perlpod and perlpodspec.
> After that, I go off and come up with the final drafts.
> Anyone making recommendations on draft 1 after Saturday will be met with
> icy stares and dismissive gestures. And mocking. Always the mocking.
Um, people's schedules don't necessarily follow your time constraints.
I'm rather uncomfortable with this sort of deadline being set; this summer
has been incredibly busy for me and I'm not going to have time to take a
detailed look at this until at *least* the middle of September, possibly
October.
There are definitely some things in the drafts that I think are wrong.
For example, just today I noticed a prohibition against turning -- into a
real dash; this would reverse a promise that's been made by pod2man since
Tom Christiansen wrote it:
It also translates dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes,
makes long dashes--like this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired
quotes," and takes care of several other troff-specific tweaks. See
the Pod::Man manpage for complete information.
These are natural operations for nroff to perform and I've never gotten a
bug report about them since I improved the handling in my rewrite of
Pod::Man. I'd be happy to listen to reasons why you feel like this should
change, but I don't have a lot of time for the discussion right now. I'm
very reluctant to change something like this that appears to be currently
working without a good justification for doing so.
I'm sure that there are also other things I'd want to question; I haven't
had time to even skim the complete documents.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
