Re: Is Pod::Simple::POD worth pursuing?

On 05/21/2013 08:16 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * John SJ Anderson <[email protected]> [2013-05-21T19:33:14]
>> * Is this a worthwhile idea? (The recent "How do I get Pod::Simple to
>> extract pod" thread suggests the answer is yes.)
>
> It's hard to judge this without the context in which you're considering it.
> The GH issue to which you linked is largely context-free.
>
> That said, wanting the ability to say "gimme just the Pod from this Pod
> document" seems pretty reasonable.  Your code looks nice and simple.  I'd
> rename it from POD to Pod so it's easier to remember.
>

We cannot remove Pod::Parser from the core until podcheck.t stops using 
it.  The version of podcheck.t that works with Marc Green's Pod::Checker 
uses Pod::Parser for only one remaining purpose: to extract the pod from 
a file.

In order to remove this dependency, one of these things will have to happen:

1) We put John's new code in core, and podcheck.t uses it.
2) I steal John's code and put it in podcheck.t
3) I reimplement what John's code does, for podcheck.t

I have been trying to avoid #3.