[Omaha.pm] RE: Pod::Tree - .pm files w/ no POD?

Jay Hannah jhannah at omnihotels.com
Thu Jul 22 11:20:48 CDT 2004


> > We have a lot of .pm files that do have POD, and even more .pm files
>   that don't have POD. Unfortunately, the no POD .pm files do create
>   an (empty) .html file, and are added to the index.
> 
> People have complained about this before, and I've taken the position
> that pods2html correctly translates an empty POD file to an empty HTML
> file, and that I didn't want to special-case the code to suppress the
> HTML files. BUT...having empty HTML files show up in the index is
> obviously the Wrong Thing. 

I understand the argument that empty.pod should always result in empty.html. 

It seems to me, though, that my module empty.pm may or may not have POD, and that the toolset should figure that out and Do The Right Thing. Yes/no?

> Some new options to the modues and executables to suppress empty HTML
> files is probably the simplest fix. I'll try to get a release out
> sometime in August.

You da man. -grin-

Thanks for the overview! Take care,

j






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