Re: [MacPerl] Another call for code!

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 18.33 -0400 1998.08.15, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>This is one area in which I think the CPAN is really weak, and maybe your
>site could serve as a model. On the CPAN, the ReadMe's often just say
>things along the lines of "this update fixes the long-standing whatever
>bug" and you have to download the actual package to get at the docs which
>say what the thing actually does. I'm rather shocked, actually, given
>Perl's pod2html and CGI capabilities. I would have expected that there
>would be html versions of the included/embedded pod documentation
>generated on-the-fly. Just having informative ReadMe's would be a good
>start.

Ask and ye shall receive!  As noted today (and last week) on
http://www.perl.org/news.html, perl.com has a new service.  Check it out:

    http://cpan.perl.com/

An example to get you going:

http://cpan.perl.com/docdir/Mac-Apps-Anarchie-1.50/lib/Mac/Apps/Anarchie.pm.html

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