Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people,perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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