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0000291Perl for OS/2Bugpublic2008-11-20 12:492012-01-26 08:14
Reportershmuel Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0000291: No usable documentation for Perl 5.1.0
DescriptionAfter installing Perl 5.10.0 from perl5100.wpi, there was no usable documentation. The old perl.inf was not installed, OS/2 does not have a man command and the output from Perldoc has the problem described in issue 235.
Additional InformationI couldn't invoke Perldoc as documented; I had to exploicitly invoke Perl. I didn't try adding an extproc line, since Perldoc doesn't have a cmd extension.
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Attached Files
pod2ipf137.cmd (90,979 bytes)
pod2ipf137.cmd.base (90,463 bytes)

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shmuel

2012-01-01 16:55

reporter   ~0002124

I can now explain why pod2ipf.cmd is unusable. In Perl 5.8, the POD documentation for foo::bar with description baz included the POD text

=head1 NAME

foo::bar - baz

In 5.10 it's just

=head1 NAME

foo::bar

The code in pod2ipf requires that the description be present.

shmuel

2012-01-05 16:30

reporter   ~0002147

At this point in time I have a version of pod2ipf that will handle a missing file without terminating. It still has half a dozen bugs that I'm trying to track down.

shmuel

2012-01-20 14:42

reporter   ~0002181

Last edited: 2012-01-20 14:43

 I can't test anything in Perl 5.14.2 until 0000515 is resolved. Meanwhile I have an updated pod2ipf.cmd from Ilya, which is not in CPAN.

psmedley

2012-01-26 08:14

administrator   ~0002198

Note also that the wpi is NOT from me

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-11-20 12:49 shmuel New Issue
2008-12-01 12:33 psmedley Project Other Unix Port => Perl for OS/2
2012-01-01 16:55 shmuel Note Added: 0002124
2012-01-05 16:30 shmuel Note Added: 0002147
2012-01-20 14:42 shmuel Note Added: 0002181
2012-01-20 14:43 shmuel Note Edited: 0002181
2012-01-20 14:49 shmuel File Added: pod2ipf137.cmd
2012-01-20 14:51 shmuel File Added: pod2ipf137.cmd.base
2012-01-26 08:14 psmedley Note Added: 0002198