Re: How to generate pod.idx?

[email protected] ("Adriano Ferreira")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Pod::Index should do that. I am not sure if it does it.

I don't think so. Pod::Index is much newer than this perldoc feature,
and if I am not wrong, the information stored does not match the one
expected at pod.idx.

> Gabor
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Adriano Ferreira
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Grant McLean <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi pod-people
>>>
>>> The documentation for the perldoc command refers to a -X switch which
>>> causes the module/POD lookup to use a pre-generated index rather than
>>> crawling @INC.
>>>
>>> I haven't been able to locate a utility for generating the pod.idx file
>>> which is referred to by the code behind the -X option.  Does such a
>>> utility exist?
>>
>> That's a good question. As a (quite indolent) maintainer of
>> Pod::Perldoc, I stared more than once those parts of the code without
>> these answers as well. Maybe someone here uses that and may give us
>> some clue about that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adriano
>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Grant
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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