Re: perldoc maintenance (was : Re: perldoc: deal with 2nd etc. arguments)

"Hakim Cassimally" wrote in perl.pod-people :
> Hi,
>
> After Sean's message below, I've volunteered to
> spend some time giving some love and care to
> perldoc.
>
> If anyone would like co-maint, let me know!

P5P would like ! perldoc being the CPAN backport of a
core utility, it's important to work with the perl5 porters.

> In the short term I want to get my head round the
> code, and work through the RT queue bugs and look
> at the wishlist items.

Could you integrate the patches that have been committed to bleadperl
since version 3.14 ? There are two of them:

Change 27878 on 2006/04/17 by stevep@stevep-mccoy 'Patch to fix RT #31227: perldoc'
Change 26191 on 2005/11/22 by rgs@bloom 'Subject: Pod::Perldoc patch (Fw'

You can find them at http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse

> After that... things I'm keen on looking at integrating
> are the POD2IT patches for localised Perldocs, and
> the Pod::Index work.  So, if anyone has thoughts on
> those, or other improvements, please let me know!

That would be nice (as long as Pod::Index isn't required
by perldoc, but that could be negotiated.)

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