Re: [Po4a-devel] New --porefs option, call to translations coming soon, po4a-buid retired
On 2012/9/18 Neil Williams <codehelp(a)debian.org>:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:58:51 +0200
"D. Barbier" <bouzim(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I will soon update PO files so that you can translate documentation
> about these new options. But I want to build PO files with
> --porefs=counter. The problem is that I do not know how to do that
> with the current build system. So unless someone explains how to do
> that with po4a-build, I will very soon revert our build system to
> using plain configuration files.
Throwing baby out with the bath water...
Nothing is thrown away at the moment, I am just changing how po4a
generates its own PO files. But if nobody maintains it, yes it may
get dropped at some point.
po4a-build.conf IS a plain configuration file....
po4a-build isn't hard to tweak. It calls po4a itself. All that's needed
is code similar to the KEEP option in the config which sets a value and
it should probably be generic, so make it PO4AOPTIONS or similar.
Modify our po4a-build.conf to specify what is needed then put that in
each call to po4a (internal and external use) in the same was as the
KEEP option in the config generates a $K variable which is passed to
po4a.
Needs to be done for the POTONLY call as well.
Then add documentation (and get it translated) for the new option.
No problem. While you are at it, please also fix
http://bugs.debian.org/557665
http://bugs.debian.org/600003
I'm away at the moment but there can't be any reason to rush
this out
during a release freeze, so there is plenty of time to get this done
without throwing away po4a-build.
Funny. I cannot see any reason why po4a development should stop
during Debian release freeze.
Denis