[Po4a-devel] po4a-build and associated files.

I'm exploring po4a-build and associated files. I added a share/ directory so that I can work without affecting other areas. (Problem with CVS is that adding and removing stuff is more awkward than with svn etc.) I chose share because 'build' is already in use and other files for po4a-build need to be shared amongst other packages - like the Makefile derived from autotools (called po4a-build.make to keep it separate from the Makefile itself). I'm thinking of this kind of layout: share/po4a-build share/Makefile share/po4a-build.make share/po4a-build-Makevars.example share/po/ share/po/Makefile share/po/Makevars share/po/POTFILES.in po4a might actually want to use the po4a-build system itself - at least for the binaries, or the current po4a binary translation system could migrate into something portable to other packages (as the po4a-build one is portable). Before that's decided, the po4a-build system for it's own binary needs to go somewhere, I need to document it and people need to see it. :-) I'm thinking of basically working almost independently within the share/ directory and then merging once the bugs are ironed out. Almost using share/ as a branch but retaining share/ even in the long-term to carry the files that need to go into /usr/share/po4a/ (rather than /usr/share/doc/po4a/ because other packages need to be able to execute these files as well as copy or symlink them). svn-buildpackage and emdebian-rootfs would then include the po4a-build Makefile for their po directory, copy and adapt the example Makevars and set POTFILES.in to setup their own script output translations. po4a-build itself is then called elsewhere in the svn-buildpackage and emdebian-rootfs build to prepare the translated manpages and other content. po4a-build itself only has a few translatable strings but the po4a-build system is already in use in SVN for svn-buildpackage and emdebian-rootfs. (It's designed for packages that want script output translation but don't use autotools, just make.) I won't add share to the top level Makefile at this stage, it won't affect the rest of the build that way. Documentation will be DocBook XML and use po4a-build for translation. I'm expecting to find lots of bugs in po4a-build - a few hidden assumptions and things - and I'll continue migrating changes into the genmanpages scripts in svn-buildpackage and emdebian-rootfs until po4a-build is ready for a release as genuine part of po4a. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/