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NAME

App::Pods2Site - converting pods to HTML site

Find all pods and convert them to linked HTML pages, and add some extra parts on top to bind them together as a simple documentation site for your Perl installation.

VERSION

Version 1.003

SYNOPSIS

# Normally run 'pods2site' from a shell prompt to create or update:
# (place a site in the perl tree)
#
pods2site :std

# or an explicit site root
pods2site /path/to/site

OVERVIEW

This package is an application, generally intended to be run from a command line.

It was inspired by the HTML documentation present in an ActivePerl installation, and which was updatable by using the 'ap-update-html' application after new modules had been installed.

As I also use other Perl distributions on both Windows and Linux, I felt the need to have a simple way to generate something similar anywhere. Hence, this tool which generates a no-frills site similarly looking.

In short, this application will by default create a simple site based on all pods found in the distribution it's installed in. As modules are updated/installed in the distribution, the application can be run again and efficiently update the documentation site.

However, it also allows you to search arbitrary locations for pods, as well as cherrypick among the found pods and skip ones of no interest to you.

FUNCTION

The overall function is simple:

Use the Config module in the running Perl to find all pods, convert them using Pod::Html and lastly, generate an index page as well as a TOC and tie it all together. Point a browser at index.html and you're good to go.

At any time, the command can be run again, and this time it will reuse the same options as before and update the site if any pods are new or newer than the corresponding HTML file.

Taking a cue from the ActivePerl way of collecting the pods, pods are by default divided in 4 categories. The rules for doing this are fairly simpleminded and heuristic though, so occasionally you may find a module that doesn't really conform to the categorization. If you're unhappy: define your own groups from scratch.

Further, you may miss documentation for scripts or modules you know are there - this typically means that they don't contain any POD text. Talk to the module author.

Lastly, due to how Pod::HTML sometimes seem to reason on how links should be fulfilled, they may not necessarily go where you expect.

  • Core

    This group, as far as I can surmise, are found as pod files in the lib 'pods' directory and named 'perl...'. Technically, this means that they should be named as 'pods::perlxxx', but as many modules and other pods use links with just 'perlxxx', behind the scenes they are set up to be found in the root also.

  • Scripts

    This group is found in the bin directories (e.g. the pods2site command itself).

  • Pragmas

    Defined as modules with a (top-level) name starting with a lowercase a-z, such as 'attributes' but also 'autodie::Scope::Guard'.

  • Modules

    Everything else.

AUTHOR

Kenneth Olwing, <knth at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-app-pods2site at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=App-Pods2Site. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc App::Pods2Site

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I thank my family for putting up with me!

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/kenneth-olwing/App-Pods2Site.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2017 Kenneth Olwing.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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