[Po4a-devel] Generating translated content in po4a

I'd like to continue development of a po4a build script currently in use in svn-buildpackage and emdebian-rootfs to reduce the process of building translated content to a simple conf file. Currently called genmanpages, it would probably be better as 'po4a-build'. The script is currently POSIX shell but then a lot of the work is done via xsltproc, so there is little point in converting to perl. The current version is in collab-maint: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/svn-buildpackage/trunk/... Also in the emdebian SVN: http://www.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/emdebian-rootfs/tr... The script uses a simple conf file: http://www.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/emdebian-rootfs/tr... I'd also like to include some Make fragments as examples that maintainers can copy into a po/ directory for support of translating program messages in packages that are not currently using autotools. The Makefile is generic, built from po/Makefile.in.in and relatively easy to keep up to date. Other files would include a Makevars example and details of what to put into LINGUAS and POTFILES.in via a manpage or HTML HOWTO. The current files can be seen here: http://www.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/emdebian-rootfs/tr... and here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/svn-buildpackage/trunk/... Finally, the docs would include a guide on setting up program output translation, starting with native packages written in perl. I think this work should continue within po4a itself. I'm undecided whether this should be in a new binary package built from po4a source or included in the main po4a package. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/