Re: GSoC Status Update

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:35:21PM -0400, Marc Green wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> The only thing left to do with regards to Pod::Html is to have it reviewed
> (available athttps://github.com/marcgreen/perl/blob/gsoc-pod/ext/Pod-Html/lib/Pod/Html.pm<%20https://github.com/marcgreen/perl/blob/gsoc-pod/ext/Pod-Html/lib/Pod/Html.pm>if
> any of you would like to). Once that is done, that is, once all
> comments,
> suggestions, and warnings are considered and possibly acted upon, it will be
> ready to be merged into the core.
> 
> I am happy to announce that I have made much progress on porting
> Pod::Checker this week. I have made a list of all the errors that
> Pod::Simple already checks for, and by comparing that to what Pod::Checker
> additionally checks for, I can efficiently implement the rest. So that is
> what I have been doing. There is a minor snag in one of the error checks,
> the one that warns if there is any text after a =pod directive, because
> Pod::Simple does not offer any way to access said text. To overcome this I
> am adding such a feature to Pod::Simple::Blackbox, so I should resume
> porting the error checks shortly.

When I looked at this before I found there tended to be significant
disagreement over whether the Pod::Checker checks were actually good
checks that ought to be included in Pod::Simple.

I know this is opening a huge can of worms but I'd be interested if you
could post the list of checks you're adding to Pod::Simple.

Michael