Dear Perl community, I'd like to apply for a CPAN account. Yes, I have been watching CPAN for quite a while now (I administer my company's Perl installation) and I am in close contact with other CPAN contributers (Brad Appleton, Nick Ing-Simmons, Steffen Beyer, Norbert Gruener, Sean M. Burke, Russ Allbery) on POD issues. Andreas Koenig encouraged me at the 2nd German Perl Workshop in March to put my developments on a new POD to HTML converter on CPAN to let others test it and comment on. First of all, here's my personal data, according to http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/04pause.html#registering Name: Marek Rouchal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW (although pretty outdated): http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~marek CPAN user id wish: MAREKR Planned contribution: MarekPodHTML-0.40, a preliminary version of a possible successor of all the POD to HTML converters on CPAN. See also below. The metadata for this is: Development Stage: a - alpha testing Support Level: d - Developer Language Used: p - Perl-only, no compiler needed, should be platform independent (BUT: depends partially on HTML::Parser, wich is "c") Interface Style: O - Object oriented using blessed references and/or inheritance Description: Script and Module for converting POD documentation to HTML I've discussed this topic vividly with Nick, Brad and Wolfgang Laun. I presented my work done at the mentioned Perl Workshop and people encouraged me to continue my work and make it available to a broader audience. It seems that a lot of people would also like to improve existing converters but simply lack the time (ask Nick ;-) After a thorough review I'd be happy if my work would become part of the Perl core. But there may be still a long way to go. I'd like to publish this module as Marek::Pod::HTML first for review, so that the existing converters can be benchmarked against my work without interference (cf. Russ Allbery's pod2roff that since 5.6.0 replaced the old pod2man). When everyone eventually agrees on what I've coded, the namespace should be changed to Pod::HTML or the like. Hope to hear from you soon! Please correct me if I made some obvious mistakes. Sincerely, Marek PS. I have further ideas and/or projects in work that I might want to share eventually with the community: further POD converters (pod2mif [FrameMaker], pod2latex), a LaTeX parser and HTML converter, a VHDL/Verilog (VLSI hardware description language) parser with OO interface.
