Pod::Thread 3.01

(Format POD source into thread, an HTML macro language)
Maintained by Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>

Copyright 2002, 2008-2009, 2013, 2021 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>. This software is distributed under a BSD-style license. Please see the section LICENSE below for more information.

BLURB

Pod::Thread translates POD source into thread, a macro language processed by DocKnot. It supports optionally adding a table of contents and a navigation bar to the genenerated file. This package also includes the pod2thread driver script for easy command-line access to the converter.

DESCRIPTION

This package contains a module to translate POD into thread, an HTML macro language. As such, it is primarily intended to support DocKnot [1], the static site generator that converts thread into HTML. Pod::Thread provides the POD formatting for DocKnot.

[1] https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/docknot/

DocKnot and this module were written for my personal needs and may not be suitable for more general use.

The conversion done by this module is mostly straightforward. The only notable parts are the optional generation of a table of contents or a navigation bar at the top of the generated file.

REQUIREMENTS

Perl 5.24 or later. As mentioned above, it's also not particularly useful without DocKnot.

BUILDING AND INSTALLATION

Pod::Thread uses Module::Build and can be installed using the same process as any other Module::Build module:

    perl Build.PL
    ./Build
    ./Build install

You will have to run the last command as root unless you're installing into a local Perl module tree in your home directory.

TESTING

Pod::Thread comes with a test suite, which you can run after building with:

    ./Build test

If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via:

    ./Build test --test_files <path-to-test>

Perl6::Slurp is required by the test suite. The following additional Perl modules will be used by the test suite if present:

• Devel::Cover
• Perl::Critic::Freenode
• Test::CPAN::Changes (part of CPAN-Changes)
• Test::MinimumVersion
• Test::Perl::Critic
• Test::Pod
• Test::Spelling
• Test::Strict
• Test::Synopsis

All are available on CPAN. Those tests will be skipped if the modules are not available.

To enable tests that don't detect functionality problems but are used to sanity-check the release, set the environment variable RELEASE_TESTING to a true value. To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local environment or that produce a lot of false positives without uncovering many problems, set the environment variable AUTHOR_TESTING to a true value.

SUPPORT

The Pod::Thread web page at:

    https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pod-thread/

will always have the current version of this package, the current documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.

For bug tracking, use the issue tracker on GitHub:

    https://github.com/rra/pod-thread/issues

However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work projects often take priority. I'll save your report and get to it as soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of months.

SOURCE REPOSITORY

Pod::Thread is maintained using Git. You can access the current source on GitHub at:

    https://github.com/rra/pod-thread

or by cloning the repository at:

    https://git.eyrie.org/web/pod-thread.git

or view the repository via the web at:

    https://git.eyrie.org/?p=web/pod-thread.git

The eyrie.org repository is the canonical one, maintained by the author, but using GitHub is probably more convenient for most purposes. Pull requests are gratefully reviewed and normally accepted.

LICENSE

The Pod::Thread package as a whole is covered by the following copyright statement and license:

  Copyright 2002, 2008-2009, 2013, 2021 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
  the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
  CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
  TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
  SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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