Win32::GUI apps even crash on ms windows.
Sure, after pp -o myscript myscript.pl; ./myscript $0 is a binary and Pod::Usage breaks.
Any thoughts how to circumvent this? Same for compiled srcipts with all other possibilities. (PerlApp/PerlCtrl/PerlSvc/perl2exe/B:C)
PAR could store a magic resource/stream (similar to __DATA__) for POD, and Pod::Parser + Pod::Simple could pick it up from this stream, if $0 is a binary. while (<POD>) { }
See http://jouke.pvoice.org/perl.html for PARcompile and http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl/ for PDKcompile for some other filters, used to extract build info from POD for those packagers.
But I want to get at the internal POD stream in a general way.
I'm not sure if that trick would be okay for Pod::Perldoc also. There an external .pod file would make more sense. Maybe pod2usage should try to find an external .pod file also on binary scripts, before trying to fetch a magic <POD> stream, which should be provided by p5p.
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