On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sean M. Burke wrote:

> At 12:09 PM 2001-12-10 -1000, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >The effort would be better spent fixing up Pod::HTML so that 
> >it uses Pod::Parser.
> 
> I'm so happy you've just volunteered!  I'm sure you'll do a great job!
> 

Very funny. As it happens I do have a Pod::HTML module that is essentially 
my Pod::LaTeX with the tags changed to HTML. Works fine for me. The reason 
I never released it was:

  - There were people in the queue already that were working on Pod::HTML 
replacements (Marek was the main example) and it was pointless me putting 
in the extra effort to try to do the same thing. The fact that the clamour 
to replace Pod::HTML in the core has died out over the past year has been 
unexpected.

  - There are so many extra features in pod2html that would have to be 
added before release that the whole task of providing backwards 
compatibility was extremely daunting.

  - I was forced kicking and screaming into "management" (there goes my 
coding time) and it's hard enough supporting the modules I have on CPAN as 
it is without adding more.

Anyway, excellent attempt to make me feel guilty but you still 
haven't answered my question and I stand by my statement that updating 
Pod::HTML is higher up in the priorities list than writing a new 
Pod::Parser. :-)

-- 
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj


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