in reply to Extract selected sections of POD

I've been doing some simple research on this, since I use podselect (part of the Pod-Parser distibution) in my Makefile.PL for creating the README, and I wondered whether my build environment would suddenly break. (fortunately, the README generation is only important for building the dist, and shouldn't break tests or installs).

I found that while Pod::Parser's documentation does say that "modern Perl releases (5.18 and higher) are going to remove Pod-Parser from core", as of 5.26.1, Pod::Parser is still listed in core (the most recent list on perldoc.perl.org). Running corelist Pod::PodParser still implies it's in core (I compared to the phrasing for corelist CGI, which explicitly says it's removed from core; Pod::Parser doesn't mention that, so that tells me corelist still thinks it's core). And corelist -a Pod::Parser shows that Pod::Parser itself has been updated since 5.18 was released:

  v5.18.0    1.60
...
  v5.19.1    1.61
...
  v5.19.9    1.62
...
  v5.21.9    1.63
...
...
  v5.27.10   1.63

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... so it's not like they didn't know it hadn't been removed from core as of 5.18. I would consider that a bug in the documentation -- since it says "are going to remove", but it's in the past, and hasn't happened yet.

Do others agree, or does my use of the word "core" (and my research results) not reflect the state of truly "core" by some technical definition?

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Re^2: Extract selected sections of POD
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 16, 2018 at 14:52 UTC
    The bug was reported.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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      Thanks. I was going to do the bug report, but I wanted confirmation before filing. If that confirmation came in the form of the bug being reported, that works, too. :-)

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