Re: podchecker from Pod::Simple

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:43:54AM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Michael Stevens wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Okay, this is the worst kind of hack, but:
> > 
> > https://github.com/mstevens/pod-simple
> > 
> > contains a "podchecker" command that does something, if not very well,
> > and uses Pod::Simple as a backend.
> 
> Thanks. I'm happen to pull in the Pod fixes. And I could see adding a test that runs Test::Pod if it's installed (which would then just SKIP ALL in core). But this script seems…odd. I don't understand the config stuff, or the "!NO!SUBS!" at the end.
> 
> But isn't there already a pod-checking script somewhere that uses Pod::Simple? Somebody help me out here.
> 
> Wishing all the POD stuff wan't scattered to the four winds,

This is a quick hack to try to make the core podchecker use Pod::Simple
to do the checking. It was inspired by discussion on p5p about the
desirability of making podchecker use Pod::Simple.

It looks like Pod::Parser's validation is different from Pod::Simple, at
the moment I wouldn't like to comment on what's right.

I just copied the original and did the minimal to make it use
Pod::Simple instead of Pod::Parser as a backend.

At the moment it's very much a toy, and I wouldn't ask you to pull it.

Michael