Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
XP is just a number
 
PerlMonks  

Re: Pod::Master

by mojotoad (Monsignor)
on Nov 07, 2002 at 14:54 UTC ( [id://211085]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Pod::Master

Nice work!

I have a minor layout issue; perhaps it's just how my brain works. In the one-shot module description, I'd consider putting the NAME/description up at the top, above the TOC. It shouldn't add so much space that the TOC is pushed off the bottom of the page; with the unnamed TOC on top I had to scramble around with my eyes a bit to find the name of the module. Perhaps just an extra blurb at the top of the TOC would suffice, in addition to a NAME section.

Also, in your example POD for Pod::Master, I see no DEPENDENCIES section. Will this be handled in a generic POD way, or will it take advantage of that nifty INSTALLED MODULES format?

Again, nice work.
Matt

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Pod::Master
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 07, 2002 at 17:45 UTC
    Thanks!.

    Oh yeah, I switched SYNOPSIS/DESCRIPTION, d'oh ;)

    And the 2nd d'oh, I generated that page by hand , without the --header option, here's what it really looks like by default (d'oh).

    Now, I am not subclassing Pod::Html, so whatever Pod::Html does, it does on its own (i myself like the toc)

    What does Will this be handled in a generic POD way, or will it take advantage of that nifty INSTALLED MODULES format? mean?

    What is a "generic POD way"? And how would I take advantage of "that nifty INSTALLED MODULES format?"

    I kind of think DEPENDENCIES belong in the README/Makefile.PL, so that's why I didn't put it in the pod.

    I'm pretty satisfied with Pod::Html and I don't plan on re-inventing it any time soon (i'm satisfied in writing patches ;)

    ____________________________________________________
    ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

      Don't get me wrong, I like the TOC as well -- it was just an issue of visually locating the name of the module immediately.

      By generic POD I just meant normal =head1 plus either items or a comma-separated list of dependencies. It wasn't really a clearly thought-out question, but it seemed you had more going on with the code that generated the INSTALLED MODULES than merely POD parsing. I guess I'm secretly desiring some tool, other than perl -c, that will recursively trace dependencies and present them in an outline format.

      You are right that lots of modules do indeed put the dependencies in README/Makefile.PL (as well as perhaps POD). A dependency-sniffer would no doubt get tripped up on optional dynamic dependencies as well. :(

      Matt

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://211085]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others meditating upon the Monastery: (4)
As of 2024-03-28 23:04 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found