[Camelbones-announcement] ANN: ShuX 3.0-beta2

[Sherm P. <sh...@do...>]

The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:
      
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta2.dmg? 
download>

What is ShuX?

ShuX is a Cocoa-based Mac OS X update to the MacPerl Shuck tool.  
Naturally, if you've never used MacPerl or Shuck, that's not  
extraordinarily helpful to know. :-)

ShuX (and Shuck) is a POD reader. POD is Perl's "plain old  
documentation" format. All of the documentation that ships with Perl -  
and there is a LOT of it - is delivered in POD format. The docs for a  
module are written in POD format, and embedded within the module's .pm  
file.


What's new in beta2?

Two major crashing bugs have been fixed:

     Running ShuX from a location with a space in the path name no longer
     causes a crash.

     Adding a DocSet by running a perl to get its configuration info  
will no
     longer cause a crash if the target perl hasn't been configured with  
one
     of the requested paths.

A number of things have been added and/or changed:

     An "Introduction to ShuX" document is displayed at startup by  
default.

     An interface to type a full or partial POD name to select it in the
     browser has been added.

     The interface for selecting a perl to use when adding a new DocSet
     has been overhauled.

     Several new options have been added to the Preferences panel.

     The menus have been cleaned up, with several menu items that aren't
     relevant to a read-only document viewer removed.

     Some minor display glitches have been corrected.


What new additions are planned for the beta3 release?

     A "shux" command-line tool, written and contributed by Alex  
Robinson.

     Active hyperlinks in document windows.

     A "history" function in the Browser window.

     An "Open POD" item in the Services menu.

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