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Re^2: documentation generator? web-enabled perldoc?by geektron (Curate) |
on Aug 07, 2004 at 15:36 UTC ( [id://380922]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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:
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