Opened 6 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#186 closed enhancement (wontfix)

pod2ipf missing from Perl 5.16

Reported by: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: *none Version:
Severity: medium Keywords: perl, POD
Cc:

Description

The pod2ipf utility is missing. It is needed to create an INF version of the documentation. I can provide a modified version and some fixes.

Attachments (3)

pod2ipf137.cmd.base (88.3 KB) - added by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz 6 years ago.
base version of pod2ipl.pl 1-37
pod2ipf137.cmd (88.8 KB) - added by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz 6 years ago.
Modified pod2ipf.pl 1-37
pod2ipf137.diff (3.4 KB) - added by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz 6 years ago.
Modifications to pod2ipf.pl 1-37

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Change History (8)

Changed 6 years ago by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Attachment: pod2ipf137.cmd.base added

base version of pod2ipl.pl 1-37

Changed 6 years ago by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Attachment: pod2ipf137.cmd added

Modified pod2ipf.pl 1-37

Changed 6 years ago by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Attachment: pod2ipf137.diff added

Modifications to pod2ipf.pl 1-37

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by Silvan Scherrer

Priority: minorFeedback pending
Type: defectenhancement

we would need to create a separate rpm for that, as I doubt this is in any original perl distributions. And here come the time factor as well. We can't do everything for free, as we need a living. So eventually it will be done one day. If you really need to feel free to contact us and we will give you a price quote.

comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

pod2ipf was in Perl 5.8 and I believe that it was also in 5.10. IAC, if you decide to create documentation in INF format, the files I attached should help.

comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by Silvan Scherrer

Priority: Feedback pendingminor

comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by Silvan Scherrer

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

as we have a man viewer we don't plan to add documentation in inf. So I close this ticket as won't fix. If you feel it's worth to include, then add it to the source tree. I even looked at older perl source and I could not find it anywhere in the official tree.

comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

FWIW, man doesn't have the functionality of view.

I doubt that the official source tree goes back as far as 5.8, but perlos2 still mentions pod2ipf.

I'm checking with CPAN to see whether I can add it back in.

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