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• Good idea (Score:2)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  I see no reason why we couldn't do that. The key would be to make the webserver really really dumb, and only support a tiny subset of the spec; Let's face it, how difficult could it be?
• Activestate... (Score:1)

  by james (1129)

  ..Perl installations have really good documentation. I seem to remember that every installed module appears in the table of contents which updates every time you install a new module. They are all formatted in an easily readable, yet pretty way. Again from what I remember its really nice and there might be something usable there already.
• Aol (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125)

  Yes, I noticed this also and asked myself the same question. Plus, perldoc sucks, and so does pod2html. Some really good job could be made here. Although I'm not very inclined to let this be made a part of the core.
  • Re:Aol (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    perldoc sucks, and so does pod2html

    I replaced one (did you upgrade to Pod::Perldoc, or are you still using the old crap?), and I'm replacing the other in the next month (Pod::Simple::HTML)
    • I want perldoc --make coffee (Score:2)

      by rafael (2125)

      Indeed blead has now Pod::Perldoc, and I'm thankful for it. (5.8.x has it probably too). At least the code of perldoc is now modular and clean; but I'm sure one can improve the command-line interface. I still need to grep *.pod :) I vaguely recall that Tom Christiansen did some work towards this. (At least I now use perldoc with vim as a pager, that permits better navigation than more/less/pg.)
      • Re:I want perldoc --make coffee (Score:2)

        by TorgoX (1933)

        I've found Tom's Pod stuff to be almost without exception unusably bad.

        But if you can dig some little bit of usefulness out of it and submit a patch to Pod::Perldoc that implements it, I'd be quite happy!

        BTW, Pod::Perldoc isn't just for blead -- just about anyone can upgrade their perldoc to use it, just via CPAN.
        • Re:I want perldoc --make coffee (Score:2)

          by rafael (2125)

          Answer 1: I don't know, last time I heard about it I was an average c.l.p.misc lurker.

          Answer 2: Hey, that's my line!

          Answer 3: I think it's in maint. But I haven't checked. My computers run 5.6.2 and 5.9.1 :)
• it exists, and demerphq had that idea a few years (Score:1)

  by podmaster (3169)

  It exists in the form that is
  Apache::Pod.
  It uses Pod::Simple.
  Alls that needed is to borrow some code
  and involve HTTP::Daemon in middle.
  
  demerphq
  had that idea a few years ago
  and i'm finally working on it
  as part of a reimplementation
  of
  http://perlmonks.org/?node=Pod::Master
  
  BTW,
  Prima has a nice pod viewer, and
  there is one for wxPerl
  ( http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=254944 )
  and there is Tk::Pod
  and there is even one that comes with Win32::GUI