Hi,

Andrew Fresh wrote on Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:24:17PM -0700:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 01:32:54AM +0100, J'er'emie Courr`eges-Anglas wrote:

>> I thought that this module only fetched data and fed it into our base
>> pod formatter, but if it does more that may be a better choice indeed.

> As far as I know the above is correct.  It overloads the standard
> Pod::Perldoc's ->searchfor method and if it doesn't find a local
> document, pulls the module from metacpan into a temporary file and
> displays it.

My point being that categorization makes most sense by purpose, and
the purpose is to display manuals, and many tools to display manuals
or prepare them for display live in textproc.  I'd consider putting
it below "net" because of the way it is technically working - opening
a network connection to download some data - to be excessively
formalistic.  Devel is not only crowded, but misleading because
the port is unusable for code development; it's puropose isn't even
documentation development, but if it were, tools for documentation
development live in textproc as well.  Sysutils - well, merely
displaying a manual is not really a task of system administration...

But of course, you choose, you are the porters!  :-)
  Ingo

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