Can we talk a little about the POD::Rtf mess please?

I had a look at the Pod::Simplify version today and fixed it's POD::RTF a bit.
But I had to rename it to POD::SimplifyRTF because of nameclashes with two
other 
POD::Rtf (esp. in windows with it's case-insensitive filenames)
This is sad because Pod::Simplify had the very first POD::RTF, the other
should 
be forced to rename...

Peter Prymmer's Pod2WinHlp uses this namespace also and Aldo Capini's POD::RTF
inside his WIN32::GUI package. But this only formats RTF for GUI output, not
as the others which produce merely hcw/hcrtf compatible winhelp format.

I'm the author of the very first pod2rtf 1996, which still works fine for me,
and is featurewise more advanced than the new versions.
For example I have a version which automatically fixes index name clashes, 
calls the old hcp.exe or new hcrtf.exe, uses a default upper window, ...

And then there's the most advanced POD tool, Marek's Pod::Compiler. 
This really should be the base for a POD::RTF for the perl pod's.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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