Re: perlpod conversion

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:05:00PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
>     It would be a bit redundant with http://perldoc.perl.org/, 
> 
> Ah, I didn't notice they were distributing full html+pdf now.  Ok, in
> that case, I think we should just provide Info (and Texinfo :).  Don't
> want to "compete" with them.
> 
>     Maybe we should wait for the issue above to be fixed in Pod::Simple, 
>     however?
> 
> Is there any ETA?  Is there even recognition that it is a bug to be
> fixed?  I got the impression from your previous message that there was
> little interest in the issues.

There is no ETA, but there is definitive interest in this bug, the
Pod::Simple maintainer even asked for feedback on the pod-people list:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74389

It is the other issue, with links, that, although it was discussed, was
not settled.  So I think that we should not wait for that second issue
to be solved.

>     So, I'd propose chopping names at 250
> 
> Sounds good.

In fact, the issue is only for file names, so no disambiguating counter
is needed, but there needs to be some space left for the file extension.
So I settled to

'BASEFILENAME_LENGTH'  => 255 - 10

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Pat