Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks
[email protected] (Karl Williamson)
| Newsgroups | perl.pod-people,perl.perl5.porters |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 01/23/2012 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Karl Williamson wrote: > >> The new Pod:Parser has just been installed in blead, and about 10 pods run afoul of this new check, including things like >> >> L<[email protected]|mailto:[email protected]> >> >> My question is should there really be a message for this kind of use, and if so, should it extend to mailto: links? > > No. Suport for L<name|scheme:...> was added to perlpodspec in 2009. Pod::Simple has supported it for years; Test::Pod started officially allowing it in v1.41, IIRC. > > Relevant changes: > > https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/commit/1e61e819debf9c7c23907d7bb9e37855665fd595 > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f6e963e4dd62b8e3c01b31f4a4dd57e47e104997 > https://github.com/theory/test-pod/commit/ae6a44894eda4fd09fb412d837efe543628cd7d6 > > Discussion: > > http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-pod-people/1393/ > > Best, > > David > > So, you're saying I believe the text in perlpodspec that was the motivation for these changes should be removed, and that Pod::Parser should revert to its old behavior of not checking for this. Is that so?