Re: podlators 5.00 released

2022-12-30 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 5:38 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Leon Timmermans writes: > > That said, I would really appreciate it if in the future people would > > talk a bit more with their upstreams when incrementing their perl > > dependency; this could easily have been not s

Re: podlators 5.00 released

2022-12-26 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 11:53 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > - Drop support for Perl 5.8. The minimum required version is Perl 5.10. > It turns out that that part of the change made Module::Build uninstallable on 5.8, which makes half of CPAN uninstallable on 5.8. I resolved this by dropping the

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com wrote: Version 1.50 of Pod::Parser adds a check and message indicating that Ltext|hyperlink is deprecated.  This is based on the following sentences in perlpodspec, which has been there since its inception in 2001:

Re: Deprecation of alternate text in hyperlinks

2012-01-24 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu 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