On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> The new Pod:Parser has just been installed in blead, and about 10 pods run
> afoul of this new check, including things like
>
> Lmailto:perl...@perl.org>
>
> My question is should there really be a message for this kind of use, and if
> so,
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Karl Williamson
wrote:
> Version 1.50 of Pod::Parser adds a check and message indicating that
> L is deprecated. This is based on the following sentences
> in perlpodspec, which has been there since its inception in 2001:
>
> "Authors wanting to link to a particul
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> So, you're saying I believe the text in perlpodspec that was the motivation
> for these changes should be removed, and that Pod::Parser should revert to
> its old behavior of not checking for this.
>
> Is that so?
I can’t parse that sentenc
Leon Timmermans writes:
> The problem of us treating manpages as our designated documentation
> medium strikes us once again. IMO, it's time for perl's documentation to
> enter the 21st century and accept that hypertext has taken over. This
> kind of trouble keeps popping up (think of the lack o
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Your rant against man pages is somewhat undermined by the fact that I, as
> maintainer of Pod::Man, have supported anchor text for URL L<> links from
> the beginning and opposed this restriction from the start.
>
> The restriction has nothing
Well guys,
if this is the case, then it will be up to me again to remove this
error detection from Pod::Parser and release a 1.51. Would be nice
if this was the final verdict on this matter...
Stay tuned...
-Marek
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