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[EXPERIMENT] the "installhtml" make target #12726
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From @rjbsThere is an C<install.html> target in the Makefile. It's marked as 1. Checking that cross linking between various parts of the 2. Improving the code that split C<perlfunc> into chunks, preferably Challenges here are correctly identifying the groups of functions that Note also the current code isn't ideal with the two forms of C<select>, |
From @LeontOn Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
I think it'd be a bit silly if we don't at the same time improve Leon |
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
From @janduboisOn Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
You are probably thinking of this one: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=45600 Cheers, |
From @jkeenanAt the Perl hackathon we held at Duck-Duck-Go last summer, Rik Signes I spent several weeks giving this module the Phalanx treatment (see: ##### So, eventually I began to pose these questions to myself -- and now to you: * Why is Pod::Html still part of the Perl 5 core distribution? * Why is Pod::Html still maintained in blead, i.e., why is it still the * Wouldn't Pod::Html be better off if it were maintained on CPAN? * If it were maintained on CPAN, would we even need to "dual-life" it, * Are there packagers who depend on Pod::Html, pod2html, or the Open for discussion. But if you think this functionality still deserves Thank you very much. |
From @LeontOn Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:21 AM, James E Keenan via RT
Module::Build uses it if the perl was configured to have a location to
Because no one has taken it over.
Probably.
HTML > manpages. We're living in the 21st century, and our hypertext Leon |
From @jkeenanOn 1/21/13 7:41 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
Can you elaborate on that? I wouldn't think that HTML would be used as Thank you very much. |
From @rjbs* James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> [2013-01-21T21:55:19]
Just this week (or maybe last) we had someone write in because our A while back, we were really hesitant to break apart some very large documents We are in an awkward position where our documentation is very bounded by the I'm not saying we must keep installhtml, or must get rid of it, or anything All that said: if nobody is going to do any work to maintain, support, or -- |
From @nwc10Note that everyone is conflating HTML install targets, pod2html and Pod::HTML It's possible to toss Pod::HTML completely but keep the other two functional On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:41:23AM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote:
Would it be better if it died? On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:40:03PM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote:
So would be the best plan of attack be to redo HTML documentation building [Obviously this needs /volunteer+/ to work on it, but as it's not a task Nicholas Clark |
From @rjbs* Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> [2013-01-22T08:06:34]
It's true, but to what extent would a "convert all the documents in these
Pod::Simple::XHTML converts /one/ document. Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch converts /many/. It uses (but does not subclass)
Hey, buddy, you leave me out of this. ;) -- |
From @cpansproutOn Tue Jan 22 05:07:20 2013, nicholas wrote:
Not so. Not everyone is familiar with XHTML syntax. :-) -- Father Chrysostomos |
Note that this EXPERIMENT ticket's concerns have been discussed on list recently in a thread begun by @rjbs. See:
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