Chris -

Some quick questions before we jump into a lengthier discussion.

1) You are discussing perldl.conf, the file for the build process, correct?

2) Do you want said docs to be CPAN legible?

3) Do you want PDL::Config to have machine-specific docs generated along
with this process?

4) Do you want CPAN-legible docs for PDL::Config while we're at it? Like
stubs?

David
On Nov 11, 2011 3:57 PM, "chm" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would like to add some documentation for the
> PDL config information in the perldl.conf file
> and am looking for ideas on a clean way to implement
> this.  The requirements for the approach:
>
> - easy to modify/create/verify by hand
> - robust against typos, self-checking or reporting errors
> - beginner-proof
> - keeps values near their documentation
>
> A simple stick POD in place of the commented
> description lines doesn't work because the hash
> is assigned in a single statement and perl
> doesn't like =pod directives to mingle there.
>
> One possibility would be to have all of the
> configure file be POD and then generate the
> hash data by processing that instead.  It would
> definitely solve the POD problem but I'm not
> sure the best way to keep things from being
> too fragile.
>
> Thoughts and ideas welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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