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[multiline.pl] Pod::Select deprecated and removed in latest Perl
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- Name of script:
multiline.pl
among others - Script version: 0.6.3
- WeeChat version: 2.9
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Bug summary
A few of the perl modules (multiline.pl
, menu.pl
, coords.pl
, etc) use the Pods::Select
library, which used to be built-in to perl. This library was deprecated, and in Perl 3.32.0 the parent library Pod::Parser
module was removed.
For Perl 3.32.0, it is required to download the module from CPAN or your package manager. However, Pod::Parser
has been replaced with the builtin Pod::Simple
, which may be a suitable replacement.
Steps to reproduce
1. Download perl 3.32.0, without any extra libraries
2. Install multiline.pl
3. Perl will report it cannot find the Pod::Select
library
Suggested solutions
Preferably replace Pod::Select
with Pod::Simple
or document users must install the extra package (e.g. on Arch this is pacman -S perl-pod-parser
).
I asked on IRC #perl
and they agreed that apparently Pod::Simple either cannot do it or the documentation is so bad that there's no way to figure out how to do it.
For now the recommended solution will be to install Pod::Select manually