Re: Which Pod module should be used / subclassed?

[email protected] ("LNATION .") Sat, 11 May 2019 06:20:52 +0800
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May or may not help:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Simpler::Aoh

https://github.com/ThisUsedToBeAnEmail/podsearch

Its simple

On Sat, 11 May 2019, 03:52 Harald J=C3=B6rg, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Karl Williamson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > [...]
> > I seem to be the one mostly maintaining Pod:Simple these days.  I
> > think the design of Pod::Simple is basically sound.  If you came up
> > with reasonable pull requests for either of those modules, I would
> > apply them.
> >
> > All those TODOs in the code are from the original author, I believe,
> > and they would be nice to have, but the code basically works and no
> > one has felt the need to spend the effort to implement them.
>
> Indeed, the parser in Pod::Simple is pretty easy to use.  I guess that
> the formatting part can turn into a can of worms with regard to
> different tastes how things should look like or behave.  It seems that
> the Pods I'm dealing with are somewhat non-standard, so I don't think
> that changing the behaviour of the existing formatters is justified.
>
> For now, I've submitted a pull request for a few of those documentation
> TODOs where I had to open the source to see what's available.
>
> Maybe I'll get to that problem of nested 'a' elements later, but since
> browsers don't really choke on that, it isn't too high on my list.
> --
> Cheers,
> haj
>

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<div dir=3D"auto">May or may not help:<div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=
=3D"auto"><a href=3D"https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Simpler::Aoh" target=3D"=
_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Simpler::Aoh</a><b=
r></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><a href=3D"https://gi=
thub.com/ThisUsedToBeAnEmail/podsearch">https://github.com/ThisUsedToBeAnEm=
ail/podsearch</a><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">It=
s simple</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=
=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, 11 May 2019, 03:52 Harald J=C3=B6rg, &lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">[email protected]</=
a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 =
0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Karl Williamson &lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" tar=
get=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; writes:<br>
<br>
&gt; [...]<br>
&gt; I seem to be the one mostly maintaining Pod:Simple these days.=C2=A0 I=
<br>
&gt; think the design of Pod::Simple is basically sound.=C2=A0 If you came =
up<br>
&gt; with reasonable pull requests for either of those modules, I would<br>
&gt; apply them.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; All those TODOs in the code are from the original author, I believe,<b=
r>
&gt; and they would be nice to have, but the code basically works and no<br=
>
&gt; one has felt the need to spend the effort to implement them.<br>
<br>
Indeed, the parser in Pod::Simple is pretty easy to use.=C2=A0 I guess that=
<br>
the formatting part can turn into a can of worms with regard to<br>
different tastes how things should look like or behave.=C2=A0 It seems that=
<br>
the Pods I&#39;m dealing with are somewhat non-standard, so I don&#39;t thi=
nk<br>
that changing the behaviour of the existing formatters is justified.<br>
<br>
For now, I&#39;ve submitted a pull request for a few of those documentation=
<br>
TODOs where I had to open the source to see what&#39;s available.<br>
<br>
Maybe I&#39;ll get to that problem of nested &#39;a&#39; elements later, bu=
t since<br>
browsers don&#39;t really choke on that, it isn&#39;t too high on my list.<=
br>
-- <br>
Cheers,<br>
haj<br>
</blockquote></div>

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