--recurse resolves pod links

so when you're converting one --infile into one --outfile, pod2html will use the directories from --recurse to resolve links found in --infile, otherwise it won't create html links, so if you're reading the file in a browser, there is nothing to click

since normally pod2html, if its called at all, its during make phase of module installation, to generate static html files

but if you're running a laptop and you have multiple versions of perl, this quickly eats your disk space , and scanning entire @INC every time you upgrade module starts slowing down module installs ,

so you quickly learn to disable html generation and manpage generation and switch to something like

plackup -l localhost:80 -e require(Pod::POM::Web::PSGI)

It has been years since I've relied on static pod..html files

Actually I'm mostly relying on metacpan these days for answering question around here

See also pod2html/Pod::Html/Pod::Find, podtree2html/pods2html/perl2html, pod2cpanhtml

In reply to Re: pod2html --recurse (resolves links) by Anonymous Monk
in thread pod2html --recurse by KeighleHawk

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