Discussing Extending the POD Spec

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Hi all,

I'm interested in opening some discussions on how we can further extend
the POD specification, adding a few new features.

Over the years there's been a couple of suggestions of features that
people want adding to POD been made on the perl5-porters@ list or other
places, that have gone back and forth and fizzled out mostly on the
observation that it isn't really clear who would be responsible for
updating/adding code to the various POD formatters or other consumers.
I'd like to get to the bottom of this sometime, as I feel there's a
steadily-growing list of "things that would be nice" that we don't have
in POD.

I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on the features
themselves, but rather to work out *who* are the people to really get
into that chat, and what level of interest people have in actually
moving forward. I would like to be in a position where we can
confidently go about adding some new features and abilities to the
format where currently it is lacking.

There's ultimately a choice to be made - is POD still alive, as a
specification, a technology? Can we continue to add new features to it?
If not, then we'd have to look into how to replace it with something
else that can continue to support what we want, and I think that would
be a shame to be in such a position. I'd much prefer to extend what we
already have, than have to throw it all out and replace it with
something else entirely.

Let me know your thoughts,

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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