Hi all, I'm interested in opening some discussions on how we can further extend the POD specification, adding a few new features.
Over the years there's been a couple of suggestions of features that people want adding to POD been made on the perl5-porters@ list or other places, that have gone back and forth and fizzled out mostly on the observation that it isn't really clear who would be responsible for updating/adding code to the various POD formatters or other consumers. I'd like to get to the bottom of this sometime, as I feel there's a steadily-growing list of "things that would be nice" that we don't have in POD. I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on the features themselves, but rather to work out *who* are the people to really get into that chat, and what level of interest people have in actually moving forward. I would like to be in a position where we can confidently go about adding some new features and abilities to the format where currently it is lacking. There's ultimately a choice to be made - is POD still alive, as a specification, a technology? Can we continue to add new features to it? If not, then we'd have to look into how to replace it with something else that can continue to support what we want, and I think that would be a shame to be in such a position. I'd much prefer to extend what we already have, than have to throw it all out and replace it with something else entirely. Let me know your thoughts, -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans [email protected] | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/
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