Yet another GSOC Discussion

[Joseph Lewis]

Hello,

If you aren't tired of these yet, you will be soon :)

I'm interested in creating a Perl 6 POD parser/output engine as described in
the wiki:
POD parser

   - *Difficulty*: 1/5
   - *Links of Interest*: <NONE, please add some>
   - *Possible Mentors*: <UNKNOWN, please volunteer!>
   - *Details*: Implement a library or tool to parse POD documentation from
   standalone .pod files and code files containing intermittent POD. The
   successful project should be able to translate POD documentation into other
   formats such as LaTeX, HTML, man pages, raw text, or others. Special focus
   should be on both compliance with the Perl 6 POD specification (Synopsis 26
   - Documentation) and interoperability with other HLLs besides Perl 6. The
   successful project will have a system with pluggable backends for outputting
   documentation in the formats listed above and others.
   - *Expected Deliverables*: <UNKNOWN, Please list what the deliverables
   will be>

I have some experience with implementing web specifications through Python
(DNS / HTTP / SMTP), that should lend itself a tad to the task at hand.  It
doesn't seem that there is a HIL that is preferred for this work (personally
I'd like to use Python 3) probably because they can all be eventually
compiled in to Parrot, or am I completely wrong in this?

Is there anything else I should know?

Thanks,
   Joe


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