Re: Is there a "poor man's" perldoc?
- From: "jl_post@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jl_post@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:22:50 -0800 (PST)
On Mar 4, 4:21 pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then you may want to kick the administrator until he fixes the broken
installation.
That might work, if only I lived anywhere near the administrator.
But in some cases, (s)he's in another country altogether.
Sadly, some people just don't think the perldocs are all that
important. Once I was working on a system maintained by a fellow co-
worker who lived all the way across the country, and I needed the
documentation for an important Perl script. I tried "perldoc"ing it,
of course, but unfortunately the "perldoc" package was not installed.
Over the phone I begged my co-worker to install the "perldoc"
package but he didn't see the point. He figured that since we already
had access to the Camel book there was nothing more that the perldocs
could offer. Nevertheless, I succeeded in having him install the
perldocs, after which I instantly pulled up all the relevant
documentation.
He was surprised. "How did you find that information so quickly?"
he asked. I explained him it that all good modules have documentation
that can be extracted with the "perldoc" package, but that the
documentation can only be viewed if the "perldoc" package is properly
installed.
He then muttered something about the perldocs being more than what
he thought they were, and went on his way to do something else.
(With other administrators I haven't been so lucky. Many of them I
don't even know personally, so I fire off an e-mail, and never hear
from them.)
While I agree with you 100% that system administrators should
install the "perldoc" package along with Perl, if they happen to think
it's redundant and not needed, convincing them otherwise is a bit like
moving mountains.
-- Jean-Luc
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