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p5-Pod-Cpandoc-0.16p1

perldoc that works for modules you don't have installed

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Description

"cpandoc" is a perl script that acts like "perldoc" except that if it would have bailed out with "No documentation found for "Uninstalled::Module"", it will instead scrape a CPAN index for the module's documentation. One important feature of "cpandoc" is that it *only* scrapes the live index if you do not have the module installed. So if you use "cpandoc" on a module you already have installed, then it will just read the already-installed documentation. This means that the version of the documentation matches up with the version of the code you have. As a fringe benefit, "cpandoc" will be fast for modules you've installed. :)

Package information

Ports path
textproc/p5-Pod-Cpandoc
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Andrew Fresh <afresh1@openbsd.org>
Categories
textproc, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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