[Po4a-devel]Merging po4a-like efforts?
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:23:43PM +0200, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
Hi,
My vision is that all these efforts have to merge, and I propose the
following long term steps:
- First, we (all the involved projects) should define a common interface
(extending the TransTractor one, for example) that would be able to
handle all the posible file formats (more than one translation on the
same file, etc.)
- Second, we should implement the new kernel app that is able to handle
everything defined in the first step using plugins.
- Third, each project could build his own file format plugins in their
preferred language.
> PS: I dream of Perl6, which will make possible the code sharing between
> perl, python and even java ;)
I support C/C++ for the kernel app, which has interfaces to lots of other
languages, and it could also bring us some more performance.
I never thought about this, but it is a lightning idea. One of the big
difference between now and the days I begun hacking on po4a is that now,
gettext exports a library we could link against. I know it exists, but I
never looked at this very closely.
I tried several times to think about a merge between po4a and gettext, but
the modules using so much perl features (regexps, eval) I though it was
impossible. I never thought about implementing the kernel (Po.pm and
TransTractor.pm) in C and leaving the modules in Perl.
Again, that's a very good idea.
Maybe all this is like an utopia, but I think it's the way to go.
If we
decide to follow one of these roads we should tell the other projects.
Well. I'm quite sure some of them are on this list ;) And I'm not sure we
should announce it too much before it gets implemented. I mean that I won't
have much time for this before months, and I hate announcing what I can't do ;)
The main spanish translators group has proposed a small encounter of
the
translation efforts (translators themselves and tools' developers) for next
summer. I think it could be a nice event to talk about all these issues.
I'll be forwarding all the information I get about it.
Hey, a little trip to espan~a this summer would be good ;)
Mt.
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