I just tried to install libwww-perl-5b5, and suffered some
unpleasantries that several of you can no doubt help with.
I'm not altogether sure who has to fix which of these, so
I have to give a wide distribution.
#1) MAJOR SHOWSTOPPER: libwww-perl installed a URI/URL.pm module
that didn't causes CGI::Request to blow up because there's
no longer a uri_unescape. Did you changed the interface backwards
incompatibly? I had to back it off down to URL-3.02.pm instead.
#2) This really bothered me, although I had a work around:
You should be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract
documentation from these files.
(type q now if you don't like yelling)
<FONT SIZE=7> <CENTER> <BEEP VOLUME=10> <BLINK>
I'm sorry, but
*I WANT MAN PAGES INSTALLED*!!!!
</FONT> </CENTER> </BEEP> </BLINK>
I'm more than a tad tired of running this crud:
$targ = '/usr/local/perl/man/man3';
for ( `tcgrep -lr '^=head'` ) {
chop;
s,^\./,,;
($name = $_);
$name =~ s,/,::,g;
$name =~ s/\.pm/\.3pm/;
print $str = "pod2man $_ > $targ/$name\n";
warn "oops" if system $str;
}
When are we going to have a MakeMaker than does the
obvious thing?
3) Both this module and many others on my system have a few
non-comformant pieces:
HTML::AsSubs.3pm: no NAME lines, so has no whatis description!
LWP::TkIO.3pm: no NAME lines, so has no whatis description!
WWW::RobotRules.3pm: no separated dash in "WWW::RobotsRules"
All pods need things like that.
Fixes soon, maybe please?
--tom
unpleasantries that several of you can no doubt help with.
I'm not altogether sure who has to fix which of these, so
I have to give a wide distribution.
#1) MAJOR SHOWSTOPPER: libwww-perl installed a URI/URL.pm module
that didn't causes CGI::Request to blow up because there's
no longer a uri_unescape. Did you changed the interface backwards
incompatibly? I had to back it off down to URL-3.02.pm instead.
#2) This really bothered me, although I had a work around:
You should be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract
documentation from these files.
(type q now if you don't like yelling)
<FONT SIZE=7> <CENTER> <BEEP VOLUME=10> <BLINK>
I'm sorry, but
*I WANT MAN PAGES INSTALLED*!!!!
</FONT> </CENTER> </BEEP> </BLINK>
I'm more than a tad tired of running this crud:
$targ = '/usr/local/perl/man/man3';
for ( `tcgrep -lr '^=head'` ) {
chop;
s,^\./,,;
($name = $_);
$name =~ s,/,::,g;
$name =~ s/\.pm/\.3pm/;
print $str = "pod2man $_ > $targ/$name\n";
warn "oops" if system $str;
}
When are we going to have a MakeMaker than does the
obvious thing?
3) Both this module and many others on my system have a few
non-comformant pieces:
HTML::AsSubs.3pm: no NAME lines, so has no whatis description!
LWP::TkIO.3pm: no NAME lines, so has no whatis description!
WWW::RobotRules.3pm: no separated dash in "WWW::RobotsRules"
All pods need things like that.
Fixes soon, maybe please?
--tom