mjgardner, 4 months ago @Perl The #perldoc utility included with #Perl has long provided an -X option to find modules and POD files via a separate architecture-specific pod.idx file: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc#-X But I can't find any tooling that creates or maintains this file as one installs and uninstalls module distributions. Does anything use this, or is it a vestigial feature from the late 90s? (note that this has nothing to do with the rarely-used X<> POD formatting code: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod#X-an-index-entry)
@Perl The #perldoc utility included with #Perl has long provided an -X option to find modules and POD files via a separate architecture-specific pod.idx file: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc#-X
pod.idx
But I can't find any tooling that creates or maintains this file as one installs and uninstalls module distributions. Does anything use this, or is it a vestigial feature from the late 90s?
(note that this has nothing to do with the rarely-used X<> POD formatting code: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod#X-an-index-entry)
mjgardner, 4 months ago @Perl As near as I can tell, GSAR added the flag and it was released with Perl v5.005, but the trail stops cold here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/89b8affaa500ec6c1699f1c161be0e130b1eb79f#diff-cc0f47e610e4a62664cc9437e9988aa840b774b63367d683ad2c5435a35fbe87R86
@Perl As near as I can tell, GSAR added the flag and it was released with Perl v5.005, but the trail stops cold here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/89b8affaa500ec6c1699f1c161be0e130b1eb79f#diff-cc0f47e610e4a62664cc9437e9988aa840b774b63367d683ad2c5435a35fbe87R86
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