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Wait, doesn't cygwin have a separate package for Perl documentation?

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Re^6: diagnostics pragma throwing a compile-time error in Cygwin-Perl
by Intrepid (Curate) on Apr 17, 2025 at 17:19 UTC
    choroba asked yesterday: 
    Wait, doesn't cygwin have a separate package for Perl documentation?

    No, I don't think so (and I checked, using the `cygcheck' tool). It has perl-Pod-Perldoc shown below. Maybe you are thinking of many Gnu/Linux distros, where there is a separate Perl documentation package.

    $ cygcheck -i perl-Pod-Perldoc
Installed package:
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Name        : perl-Pod-Perldoc
Version     : 3.28
Release     : 4
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Tue Sep 03 16:32:09 2024
Size        : 65829 (64 K)
Categories  : Perl
Source      : perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.28-4-src.tar.zst
Summary     : Perl distribution Pod-Perldoc
Description :
Perl distribution Pod-Perldoc, providing Perl modules:
Pod::Perldoc Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo Pod::Perldoc::GetOptsOO
Pod::Perldoc::ToANSI Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker Pod::Perldoc::ToMan
Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff Pod::Perldoc::ToPod Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf
Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm Pod::Perldoc::ToText Pod::Perldoc::ToTk
Pod::Perldoc::ToXml.
    Apr 17, 2025 at 17:19 UTC
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      And what's this, then?

      map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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        Drat!! Confungalate! His* fu is stronger than my fu. But I will have my revenge!;-)

        Heh heh. That's absolutely correct. Cygwin package perl_pods contains /usr/share/perl5/5.40/pods/perldiag.pod. I think, that is, imho, cavac, based on this investigation, a strong argument could be made for refraining from use diagnostics; in released modules. A pretty strong argument could also be made that the implementation of diagnostics is weird and obscurist ;-)

        *choroba

        Apr 17, 2025 at 19:31 UTC

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