Kudos. That is a really great idea for eliminating annoying typos in POD -- somehow, I always seem to catch a typo after I've released to CPAN (something to do with the really nice POD2HTML formatter they have, I guess). However... at the risk of reopening the Test::Pod/Test::Pod::Coverage flamewar, I'm also really glad that you caution in your docs about including a test like this in a distribution because of the the new dependency chain it adds:

• Pod::Spell and Test::Spelling have to be installed (or downloaded and installed) or tests will fail (though smart use of eval "require ..." can address that)
• The Pod::Spell version with stopwords needs to be the same as what you tested before release to not let something unexpected through (though it's not been updated since 2001, so that may not be much of an issue)
• It relies upon an external spell checker program, which may or may not exist or exist by the hardcoded name provided

The way I see it, unless one is only writing for internal use or for someone with exactly the same system setup that one has, there are going to be a lot of spurious failures and frustrated downloaders.

If someone wants to check spelling with a .t file, I'd recommend not including it in the MANIFEST (and adding it to MANIFEST.SKIP) so it stays internal for one's own development purposes.

For your "todo" list -- I suggest having it skip gracefully instead of failing if it can't find the external spell checker.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.