Yikes. Your plan will require that end-users have 'pod2html' available to them, and that you can feed pod2html the original perl scripts which made your pp executable. And avoid hard-coded paths!

Instead, if you really want to internally pack your documentation so you only need to ship one executable file, I would suggest you run pod2html yourself, and stuff that into a __DATA__ block in one of the compiled script files. Then your --makedoc command can regurgitate that stuff into .html files directly.

I haven't used pp much; maybe it can even include various non-Perl files which are required by the executable. Then you wouldn't even need a __DATA__ hack to include the html content.

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In reply to Re: introspection, or running pod2html on itself by halley
in thread introspection, or running pod2html on itself by punkish

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