Re: [Po4a-devel]Winedocs and Po4a dependencies
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:49:44PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:52:39PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
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> * Text::WrapI18N (perl module)
> Pure perl (so easy to check in) but depends on Text::CharWidth which
> is not pure perl.
> Provided by libtext-wrapi18n-perl on Debian. Found no RPM packages
> providing it.
>
> Text::WrapI18N was not used in po4a 0.16.2. I initially thought it
> was used to wrap the text being output to the .po and .sgml files but in
> fact it seems to only be used to print messages, warnings and errors.
> Why is it needed? Doesn't a simple print work fine?
This module becomes important when you want to wrap CKJ languages
(japaneese, corean), which don't have any spaces, if I understood well. So
finding where you can cut the sentence properly is not as easy as in, say,
french.
So, actually, we *ought* to use it all around the place. Maybe through a
wrapper such as the one you propose for gettext...
AFAICT this module is only useful to print error messages, so this is
all about cosmetics and a wrapper (no, this one does not wrap lines ;))
should be fine. When this module is not present, no wrapping is performed.
Jordi, is it fine by you?
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> * nsgmls (command line tool)
> Needed by po4a to parse the Sgml files.
> Provided by sp on Debian, sgml-tools or openjade on Mandrake and
> Fedora Core, opensp on SUSE.
>
> This is an essential part of po4a. So it will have to remain as a
> dependency which is reasonable.
Actually, I'd like since a long time to kill this one, changing it to an
home-made parser such as the one used in xml or so...
I thought you had no time ;)
Denis