Re: AW: pod2usage and Pod::Find, Pod::PlainText

On 04/23/2016 03:26 PM, Marek Rouchal wrote:
> Thanks for the hint... two thoughts, feedback welcome:
> 1. Pod::PlainText used to be part of the core... but since now Pod::Usage depends on Pod::Simple, I think the tests should be restructured to use that, or as a last resort, Pod::Text
Is there any real difference between PlainText and Pod::Simple::Text ?

> 2. Pod::Find might deserve a separate distribution, but again the test of Pod::Usage should not depend on it.
> Hope to find some time to get that done in the next days...
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> -Marek
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> It has been a goal to remove Pod::Parser from the core perl distribution.
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> It turns out there is a dependency in 2 test files for pod2uage upon Pod::Find and Pod::PlainText, which are parts of Pod::Parser.
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> The test files are Pod-Usage/t/pod/pod2usage.t
>                  and Pod-Usage/t/pod/pod2usage2.t
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> Note that Pod::Usage itself doesn't depend on Pod::Parser, just two test files do.  I don't understand this part of perl at all.  So I'm wondering what to do about this.  Could the tests just be deleted?  Is there a current alternative to the functionality of these modules?
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