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Id: 11502
Status: stalled
Priority: 0/
Queue: PAR
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: steve.hay [...] uk.radan.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.87
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Feb 14 13:04:25 2005 shay [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: pp -f ... breaks Pod::Usage
CPAN RT #5302 fixed a problem with using pp on a script that uses Pod::Usage. However, I now find that I have a similar problem if the script is "filtered" in any way with the "-f" option. For example, put this into test.pl: use Pod::Usage; pod2usage(-verbose => 0) __END__ =head1 SYNOPSIS pod2usage Now run "pp -o test.exe -f Bleach test.pl" and then run "test.exe". It produces no output. I've found the same results using other filters. In each case, the filter modules work fine with scripts that aren't using Pod::Usage. Configuration: WinXP, VC++ 6.0, perl-5.8.6, PAR-0.87.
  Sun Mar 26 13:58:20 2006 smueller [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi, sorry for the late reply. In https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11502 you report a problem with PAR filters and Pod::Usage. I cannot think of a way to alleviate this. For example when Acme::Bleach is used, the filtered script will be mainly whitespace. The filter has also "bleached" the POD section which now cannot be read by Pod::Usage. This applies to all filters that touch the POD section. Possibly, one could write a filter that strips out POD before any other filter is applied and then reinserts the POD after all filters have been processed. This might break just as well, though. Steffen
  Sun Mar 26 13:58:20 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Mar 26 13:58:21 2006 smueller [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'