Hello all, My name is Marc Green and I am working on the 'Standardization of Core Documentation Parsing Tools' GSoC project. The proposal is available for reading at https://gist.github.com/941354. If you don't want to read the whole thing, or even follow the link, the description of the project is as follows: I am going to deprecate Pod::Parser by replacing all uses of it within perl's core with Pod::Simple.
Although the coding period does not officially start until May 23rd, my mentors (hey rjbs and theory) and I decided that the best way to participate in the community bonding/setting up period is to start coding. I have been working for about 2.5 weeks so far, and decided I have made enough progress to elicit a status report, so here we are. In summary, this is what I have done so far: - converted the first (and easiest) module, Module::Build::PodParser, from using Pod::Parser (https://github.com/marcgreen/module-build) - started converting Pod::Html to use Pod::Simple instead of the home grown parser - - I have implemented a --backlink flag in Pod::Simple as a first step ( https://github.com/marcgreen/pod-simple) What I plan to do over the next week(s): - continue converting Pod::Html to use Pod::Simple (I believe this will be the most time consuming module to convert) - - I will need to write a subclass of Pod::Simple::Xhtml in order to implement the features needed for Pod::Html - - my mentors and I have decided to remove the current cache feature of Pod::Html in order to simplify the conversion Also, if you *really* want to know what is going on, the irc logs from the meetings I have with my mentors are available at https://github.com/rjbs/TPF-GSoC-Pod. There is also a todo list there I made for myself, but it probably won't shed any light on the situation for anyone who is not me. Thanks for reading, Marc
