Re: How to generate pod.idx?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Adriano Ferreira
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

As far as I know perlpod was talking about X<> long before anyone
actually used the X<>
tags.
Then a few years ago Ivan has started to add these tags to the core
documentation and to
the core modules. He also released this indexer to actually make use
of the X<> tags.
Then he practically disappeared and no one picked up the project.

Of course Pod::Indexer might generate some other format and not the
expected pod.idx
but as far as I know the any actual X<> tags were only added during
the 5.9 development.

In any case I think it would be really good to start using them for
perldoc.perl.org and for the command line perl. I could then reuse
them in Padre as well.

regards
   Gabor