Re: Existing tools for extracting POD from a source file?

On 11/28/2013 12:20 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> We've had a lot of problems lately with the fact Parrot uses Perldoc
> to simply extract pod statements from a generated file and emit them
> into another file.
>
> This stems mostly from the fact perldoc over-zealously drops privs.
>
> But the gist of it is: parrot calls  `perldoc -ud target source`, and
> we're having a nightmare because neither source nor target can be read
> when UID=nobody, and even chmodding the relevant files for some reason
> doesn't help ( mostly, because the directories themselves are not
> readable or writeable by UID=nobody, meaning we'd have to chmod the
> entire parentage of the directory to just avoid perldocs attempt at
> making things secure ).
>
> So, is there a simple tool already on CPAN that will extract POD
> segments from arbitrary files and spew them into other files without
> requiring priv dropping?
>
> It seems trivial to write one, but if something already exists that'd
> be helpful.
>
> Presently, I'm just looking to patch parrot during build to use the
> new tool instead of perldoc.
>

You may have missed this

https://github.com/genehack/pod-simple/tree/add-pod-simple-pod

which is incomplete.  What has parrot done in the meantime?