Re: [Po4a-devel]Some details

Hi there, On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Martin Quinson wrote: The MakeMaker FAQ says: "Module::Build is the official heir apparent to MakeMaker and we encourage people to work on M::B rather than spending time improving MakeMaker". So this is what I've done. I attach the new files, and the ones I modified. Now, the basic distribution can be installed with: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install and it doesn't deppend on make. I've transformed the debian/rules into a main Makefile, so that it makes this process for you, and it includes the locales and translated manpages generation. This way, one can install the complete application and documents from the tar.gz. I've also reworked debian/rules to use this main makefile. I haven't tested it (I have no debian at home) so it may need some changes. The biggest change is in the manpages generation: it writes each file in a hierarchy as they should be installed on the system; it eases the installation without the dh_installman tool, but I dont know if it's so bad for the debian package generation... The next step could be to watch how to integrate locales and manpages generation into the Build.PL (as the manual says, Module::Build is more easily custmoizable than MakeMaker), but for now, it lets you install the complete file set on every distribution, not only debian. I've also improved (in my opinion) the po/{bin,pod} Makefiles, using the LANGS variable, instead of the redundant POFILES and MOFILES. The biggest change has been in the pod Makefile, where I've made it able to translate pods to many languages, instead of only the hardcoded french (I'll send you a partial spanish translation of the pods soon). I hope I didn't break so many things... Regards, Jordi Vilalta