Re: TODO Perl documentation question

.------[ Peter Eisentraut wrote (2002/02/01 at 15:54:40) ]------
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| Frank Wiles writes:
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| > While considering you're preparing for a new release this probably
| > isn't the best time for this question, however I noticed you have a
| > TODO item "Add documentation for perl, including mention of DBI/DBD
| > perl location". Is this still outstanding?
|
| Yes.
|
| > If so, I'd be happy to take on this item just let me know where you
| > want it in the documentation tree.
|
| Basically, we looking for a way to tie in the perldoc-style documentation
| with the DocBook sources. One that is done, just add a sentence or three
| about DBI/DBD. Since we don't supply that driver nor control it, you
| wouldn't want to get into too many details, just tell people that it's
| there and where.
|
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There is pod2docbook on CPAN, have you looked into using that? Could
probably use that and a small perl script to put in the proper chapter
ids, links to DBI/DBD on CPAN, and a small blurb into the
pod2docbook output.

Is this along the lines of what you're after?

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Frank Wiles <frank(at)wiles(dot)org>
http://frank.wiles.org
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