NAME

       Pod::Readme - Intelligently generate a README file from POD

SYNOPSIS

       In a module's POD:

         =head1 NAME

         MyApp - my nifty app

         =for readme plugin version

         =head1 DESCRIPTION

         This is a nifty app.

         =begin :readme

         =for readme plugin requires

         =head1 INSTALLATION

         ...

         =end :readme

         =for readme stop

         =head1 METHODS

         ...

       Then from the command-line:

         pod2readme lib/MyModule.pm README

       From within Perl:

         use Pod::Readme;

         my $prf = Pod::Readme->new(
           input_file          => 'lib/MyModule.pm',
           translate_to_file   => $dest,
           translation_class   => 'Pod::Simple::Text',
         );

         $prf->run();

DESCRIPTION

       This module filters POD to generate a README file, by using POD commands to specify which
       parts are included or excluded from the README file.

POD COMMANDS

   "=for readme stop"
       Stop including the POD that follows in the README.

   "=for readme start"
   "=for readme continue"
       Start (or continue to) include the POD that follows in the README.

       Note that the "start" command was added as a synonym in version 1.0.0.

   "=for readme include"
         =for readme include file="INSTALL" type="text"

       Include a text or POD file in the README.  It accepts the following options:

       "file"
           Required. This is the file name to include.

       "type"
           Can be "text" or "pod" (default).

       "start"
           An optional regex of where to start including the file.

       "stop"
           An optional regex of where to stop including the file.

   "=for readme plugin"
       Loads a plugin, e.g.

         =for readme plugin version

       Note that specific plugins may add options, e.g.

         =for readme plugin changes title='CHANGES'

       See Pod::Readme::Plugin for more information.

       Note that the "plugin" command was added in version 1.0.0.

   "=begin :readme"
   "=end :readme"
       Specify a block of POD to include only in the README.

       You can also specify a block in another format:

         =begin readme text

         ...

         =end readme text

       This will be translated into

         =begin text

         ...

         =end text

       and will only be included in README files of that format.

       Note: earlier versions of this module suggested using

         =begin readme

         ...

         =end readme

       While this version supports that syntax for backwards compatibility, it is not standard
       POD.

ATTRIBUTES

       This module extends Pod::Readme::Filter with the following attributes:

   "translation_class"
       The class used to translate the filtered POD into another format, e.g. Pod::Simple::Text.

       If it is "undef", then there is no translation.

       Only subclasses of Pod::Simple are supported.

   "translate_to_fh"
       The IO::Handle to save the translated file to.

   "translate_to_file"
       The Path::Tiny filename to save the translated file to. If omitted, then it will be saved
       to "STDOUT".

   "output_file"
       The Pod::Readme::Filter "output_file" will default to a temporary file.

   "force"
       For a new README to be generated, even if the dependencies have not been updated.

       See "dependencies_updated".

   "zilla"
       For use with Dist::Zilla plugins.

       This allows plugins which normally depend on files in the distribution to use metadata
       from here instead.

METHODS

       This module extends Pod::Readme::Filter with the following methods:

   "default_readme_file"
       The default name of the README file, which depends on the "translation_class".

   "translate_file"
       This method runs translates the resulting POD from "filter_file".

   "dependencies_updated"
       Used to determine when the dependencies have been updated, and a translation can be run.

       Note that this only returns a meaningful value after the POD has been processed, since
       plugins may add to the dependencies.  A side-effect of this is that when generating a POD
       formatted README is that it will always be updated, even when "force" is false.

   "run"
       This method runs "filter_file" and then "translate_file".

   "parse_from_file"
         my $parser = Pod::Readme->new();
         $parser->parse_from_file( 'README.pod', 'README' );

         Pod::Readme->parse_from_file( 'README.pod', 'README' );

       This is a class method that acts as a Pod::Select compatibility shim for software that is
       designed for versions of Pod::Readme prior to v1.0.

       Its use is deprecated, and will be deleted in later versions.

   "parse_from_filehandle"
       Like "parse_from_file", this exists as a compatibility shim.

       Its use is deprecated, and will be deleted in later versions.

CAVEATS

       This module is intended to be used by module authors for their own modules.  It is not
       recommended for generating README files from arbitrary Perl modules from untrusted
       sources.

SEE ALSO

       See perlpod, perlpodspec and podlators.

AUTHORS

       The original version was by Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org> until 2010, when maintenance
       was taken over by David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>.

       In 2014, Robert Rothenberg rewrote the module to use filtering instead of subclassing a
       POD parser.

   Acknowledgements
       Thanks to people who gave feedback and suggestions to posts about the rewrite of this
       module on <http://blogs.perl.org>.

   Suggestions, Bug Reporting and Contributing
       This module is developed on GitHub at <http://github.com/bigpresh/Pod-Readme>

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Robert Rothenberg. All rights reserved.  This program is free
       software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.