NAME

Pod::ProjectDocs - generates CPAN like project documents from pod.

SYNOPSIS

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    use Pod::ProjectDocs;
    my $pd = Pod::ProjectDocs->new(
        libroot => '/your/project/lib/root',
        outroot => '/output/directory',
        title   => 'ProjectName',
    );
    $pd->gen();

    #or use pod2projdocs on your shell
    pod2projdocs -out /output/directory -lib /your/project/lib/root

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to generates CPAN like pod pages from your modules for your projects. It also creates an optional index page.

OPTIONS

outroot

output directory for the generated documentation.

libroot

your library's (source code) root directory.

You can set single path by string, or multiple by arrayref.

    my $pd = Pod::ProjectDocs->new(
        outroot => '/path/to/output/directory',
        libroot => '/path/to/lib'
    );

or

    my $pd = Pod::ProjectDocs->new(
        outroot => '/path/to/output/directory',
        libroot => ['/path/to/lib1', '/path/to/lib2'],
    );

title

your project's name.

desc

description for your project.

index

whether you want to create an index for all generated pages (0 or 1).

lang

set this language as xml:lang (default 'en')

forcegen

whether you want to generate HTML document even if source files are not updated (default is 0).

except

the files matches this regex won't be parsed.

  Pod::ProjectDocs->new(
    except => qr/^specific_dir\//,
    ...other parameters
  );

  Pod::ProjectDocs->new(
    except => [qr/^specific_dir1\//, qr/^specific_dir2\//],
    ...other parameters
  );

pod2projdocs

You can use the command line script pod2projdocs to generate your documentation without creating a custom perl script.

    pod2projdocs -help

SEE ALSO

Pod::Parser

AUTHORS

Lyo Kato <lyo.kato@gmail.com>

Martin Gruner (current maintainer)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright(C) 2005 by Lyo Kato

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.