Pod progress

TorgoX on 2004-05-12T10:03:17

Dear Log,

So today I meandered over to the diner and coded for... six hours? It is easy to lose track of time, since it stays light these days until about 10pm.

What I banged out: a Perl module that is basically perldoc over HTTP. You start up this module and then http://localhost:8020/File/Find is an HTML version of perldoc File::Find, and http://localhost:8020/ is a list of all the pages you can access, and so on.

For the time being, I called it Pod::Simple::HTMLServe, but I think a better name is on the way, probably Pod::Perldoc::HTTP.

Now I gotta write docs. Ugh. And, if I have time, tests. Ugh ugh.


Apache::Pod::HTML

petdance on 2004-05-12T14:07:55

That's basically what Apache::Pod::HTML (and Apache::Pod::Text) do.

Re:Apache::Pod::HTML

TorgoX on 2004-05-13T01:13:13

Neato!

But this one don't require any (other) web server to be installed or running. And it's only about two hundred lines of (generously indented) code. I figure anyone with a web server running should use Apache::Pod::HTML, but in a pinch they could fall back on this module.

(Anyhow, writing this module helped me improve the code in Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch, which this is a subclass of. For some reason, when I subclass something, I see new ways to improve its code.)

Re:Apache::Pod::HTML

petdance on 2004-05-13T01:28:28

That's cool too. Now if I just had all the L<> stuff working...

Re:Apache::Pod::HTML

grantm on 2004-05-14T00:39:32

Now if I just had all the L<> stuff working...

Not to mention the table of contents :-)

This is the operator - get out!

pemungkah on 2004-05-12T14:12:44

THE DOCUMENTATION IS COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR WEBSERVER!