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WHAT IS THIS?
=============
This software distribution contains the following packages for using
Perl5 "pod" (Plain Old Documentation). See the "perlpod" and "perlsyn"
manual pages from your Perl5 distribution for more information about pod.
Pod::Parser
-----------
The Perl5 module "Pod::Parser", which provides a base class for
parsing and selecting sections of POD documentation from an input
stream. Please see the POD documentation for this module (embedded
in the file "Parser.pm") for more details.
Pod::Select
-----------
The Perl5 module "Pod::Select", which provides a subclass of
Pod::Parser and an exported function named "podselect()" to dump
selected sections of raw pod documentation from an input stream.
Please see the POD documentation for this module (embedded in the
file "Select.pm") and Pod::Parser for more details.
Pod::PlainText
--------------
A replacement for the Perl5 module "Pod::Text" and the corresponding
"pod2text()" function. It is derived from the Pod::Parser class.
Please see the POD documentation for this module and Pod::Parser for
more details (embedded in the file "PlainText.pm").
*NOTE*: As of perl 5.00_58, Pod::PlainText has been re-written by
Russ Allbery, and has been renamed to Pod::Text in the core Perl
distribution (replacing the previous implementation of Pod::Text).
The Pod::PlainText module is still provided with Pod::Parser on CPAN
solely for backward compatibility. Once Perl 5.6 becomes the latest
stable version of Perl, then Pod::PlainText will be removed from the
Pod-Parser distribution!!
Pod::InputObjects
-----------------
Some input objects needed by Pod::Parser, and for advanced users of
Pod::Parser that need more about a command besides its name and text.
Pod::ParseUtils
---------------
A module with several object-oriented helpers for POD parsing and
processing. Probably the most important is Pod::Hyperlink for
parsing and expanding POD hyperlinks L<...>.
AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS
====================
Marek Rouchal <marekr@cpan.org>
Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com> http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
Russ Allbery <rra@standford.edu>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
================
* Kenneth Albanowski for his extensive assistance with the design and
interface of Pod::Parser.
* Steven McDougall for his help and patience with re-writing the manpage
for Pod::Usage and Pod::Parser.
* Achim Bonnet for helping me get the regression test-suite into a form
that works with 'make test' generated by MakeMaker
* Nick Ing-Simmons, for his considerable time and effort spent trying to
make pre-release versions of Pod::Parser work with code and giving me
feedback on the implementation and design.
* Russ Allbery for re-writing Pod::PlainText from scratch and getting it
to replace Pod::Text in the core for perl 5.00_58!
COPY/REUSE POLICY
=================
Except where explicitly stated otherwise within the contents of a file,
this distribution and all the files in it are Copyright (C) 1996-1999
by Brad Appleton. All rights reserved.
Pod-Parser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the Artistic License distributed with Perl version
5.000 or (at your option) any later version. Please refer to the
Artistic License that came with your Perl distribution for more
details. If your version of Perl was not distributed under the
terms of the Artistic License, than you may distribute Pod-Parser
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The Artistic License should have been included in your distribution of
Perl. It resides in the file named "Artistic" at the top-level of the
Perl source tree (where Perl was downloaded/unpacked -- ask your
system administrator if you dont know where this is). Alternatively,
the current version of the Artistic License distributed with Perl can
be viewed on-line on the World-Wide Web (WWW) from the following URL:
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
The latest version of Perl can be obtained on the World-Wide web (WWW)
from the following URL:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz
DISCLAIMER
===========
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
is provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either expressed or
implied, INCLUDING, without limitation, the implied warranties of
MERCHANTABILITY and FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The ENTIRE RISK as to the quality and performance of the software
IS WITH YOU (the holder of the software). Should the software prove
defective, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR
CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY CREATE,
MODIFY, OR DISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE TO YOU OR TO
ANY OTHER ENTITY FOR ANY KIND OF DAMAGES (no matter how awful - not even
if they arise from known or unknown flaws in the software).
Please refer to the Artistic License that came with your Perl
distribution for more details.
CONTENTS
========
Please see the file named "MANIFEST" which should have been included
in the Pod-Parser distribution.
REQUIREMENTS
============
* Perl version 5.005 or later
* File::Spec from CPAN (already bundled in Perl 5.005)
at least version 0.82, previous ones lack some functions needed here
BUILDING & INSTALLING
=====================
Please see the perl "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" manpage for how to build and
install using the Makefile.PL template. In a nutshell, simply typing:
perl Makefile.PL
should build a Makefile with the usual targets like "all", "clean",
"test", and "install".
BUGS
====
Please use the CPAN bug tracking to report bugs:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Pod-Parser
TO DO
=====
Please see the file named "TODO" which should have been included
in the Pod-Parser distribution.
HISTORY
=======
Please see the file named "CHANGES" which should have been included
in the Pod-Parser distribution.
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