[Bioperl-l] bug #1396: *.PL to *.pod conversion is broken, makebailsout

[Aaron J Mackey]

Let me just toss in a small recommendation that you might want to consider
"reversing" the problem; instead of reading/interpolating variable values
in POD, try providing the values in regular POD format, and using
Pod::Constants to extract and set the corresponding variables:

use vars qw($VERSION);
use Pod::Constants VERSION => sub { eval };

=pod

=head2 VERSION

$VERSION = 1.1

=head2 SYNOPSIS

  # perl code that will not be interpolated
  my @foo = blah_blah('blah');

=cut

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Brian Osborne wrote:

> Lincoln,
>
> You'd mentioned something about using @@VERSION@@ but my searches using this
> word or "@@" didn't turn up anything. Can you direct me to a man page or Web
> page or application that discusses this?
>
> Brian O.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilmar Lapp [mailto:hlapp at gnf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:33 AM
> To: Allen Day
> Cc: Bioperl; Lincoln Stein; brian_osborne at cognia.com
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] bug #1396: *.PL to *.pod conversion is broken,
> makebailsout
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:20  PM, Allen Day wrote:
>
> > Hey, sorry, I wasn't following this thread.  Has there been a
> > resolution
> > on this, or do I need to fix it?
> >
> > There had been some variables in other of the converted .pod files, I
> > tried to separate the pod into two types of sections:
> >
> > (1) those where i needed to do variable interpolation from LocalConf
> > were
> >     put in <<"HEREDOC" blocks
> > (2) everything else (including variables in pseudocode) were put in
> >     non-interpolated <<'HEREDOC' blocks
> >
>
> I'm not sure how a non-interpolated HERE-document looks, but as a
> matter of fact biodesign.PL and biodatabases.PL were all one document,
> and variables were interpolated all over the place.
>
> Lincoln fixed this by manually escaping all variables.
>
> > I don't get any errors during the make, but it might just be my system.
>
> Most of the interpolated variables do not yield errors. Only the arrays
> (@arr) do. Scalars silently result in emptiness.
>
> I guess you noticed the move to pub.open-bio.org meanwhile.
>
>         -hilmar
>
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