Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il> write:

As someone who works primarily in Perl nowadays, and hates it, I must say that as horrible and unaesthetic pod is, having

perldoc package::module

Just work is worth everything -- [snip] We had a DevDay, we have a sig, we have a PEP. None of this seems to help -- what we need is a BDFL's pronouncement, even if it's on the worst solution possibly imaginable.

ReportLab have just hired Dinu Gherman to work on this. We have crude running solutions of our own that do both HTML+Bitmap and PDF on any package, and are devoting considerable resources to an automatic documentation tool. In fact, it's part of a deliverable for a customer project this spring. We need both these PEPs or something like them for this to really fly. Dinu will be at IPC9 and happy to discuss this, and we have the resources to do trial implementations for the BDFL to consider. I suggest anyone interested contacts Dinu at the address above. And Dinu, why don't you contact the doc-sig administrator and find out why your membership is blocked :-) - Andy Robinson