Re: podlators 4.04 released

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce release 4.04 of podlators.  This fixes some test
> portability and merges changes made as part of the import into blead.

> Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed
> in the TODO file.

One of the recent integrations did away with
cpan/podlators/scripts/pod2man.PL and
cpan/podlators/scripts/pod2text.PL and added pre-built versions in
cpan/podlators/bin.  Core integration then put copies of the .PL files
in utils/ but did not change the location in utils.lst.  This makes it
dodgy whether they will get built and installed correctly on non-Unix
systems and partially undoes the intent of
<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/bab7aada2e9c0074c39ee39ffeb3b8e6c550b204>.

I think core integration would be easier if we just stuck with .PL
files under cpan/podlators/scripts. That way they'll get built
correctly for the target platform and there should be less
customization to bring a new version into core.  Is there any reason
to prefer distributing Unix-specific scripts under bin/?