yes, i think we all know how you feel about POD. ;-)

i've thought of something like POD on steroids. pod2html is a nice start for web-enabling the whole thing, and some kind of (ack!) custom parser could generate the meta-data to shove info into a database and "make it searchable" (so could something like htdig, but i worry about false positive and things like that just from a full-text search ).

i like POD, but POD does have its limitations. one of the main limitiations being that any 'cross-references' (like function Foo::bar called by package Bar::baz ) has to be done by hand. for an undocumented application that's sliced way too thin ... that's going to be a nightmare.

( the app author seriously has modules like:
Application::Mailer::Mailer::SendMail
which does NOTHING but accept a stringified MIME::Lite message ( from  $obj->as_string() ), open a SENDMAIL pipe, and print to that pipe. i don't know about everyone else, but that's a bit too sliced for my taste.