Re: How to generate pod.idx?

Sorry if I disappeared. I can confirm that Pod::Index has nothing to
do with the -X command-line option for perldoc.

At one point I had a patch for Pod::Perldoc where I added a -k flag
for keyword searching, but I never got any response from the
maintainer. I kind of gave up but continued to use it for my personal
needs. I had a website demonstrating the keyword search at one point,
but it died when I moved to another country since it was running from
a machine in my living room! If anyone is interested in trying it,
there is a sample CGI script called perldoc-k.cgi included in the
pod-index distribution. This needs the modified Perldoc.pm which is
only available via CVS (you can see it at
http://annocpan.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/annocpan/pod-index/lib/Pod/
).

Cheers,
Ivan

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>