Re: [Po4a-devel] po4a 0.46 just released
Hello,
On 21/05/2015 08:21, Marco Ciampa wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 01:22:44AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> after almost 2 years, I just released a new version of po4a. That
> version does not come with a huge load of changes (I just integrated
> some of the available patches on the Debian bug tracker), but that's
> still a very good news: I managed to get into the situation where I
> can upload versions of that software again! I think that more releases
> will flow in now that my setup is fixed.
>
> That being said, I don't expect much free time to hack on po4a so I'll
> mainly do the basic maintainance. That's already much more than what I
> did in the recent years (my last upstream release was almost 10 years
> ago!)
>
> Feel free to write patches, and I'll integrate them
>
> Bye, Mt.
Very good news. I was afraid it was a dead project and almost ready to
take over and fork it. We (KiCad development team) are rely on
asciidoc+po4a for handling the i18n of the documentation. Asciidoc is
(IMHO) the best light markup format but it lacks (for now) internal
handling of i18n strings. Thanks to po4a that makes it possible.
I just built and installed a po4a-0.46 package for Slackware and will
soon provide updated stuff @ http://slackbuilds.org, see
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/misc/po4a/
I like Asciidoc too and use it to build all pages of http://slint.fr
We also use asciidoc+po4a to translate the pages of the website.
I am writing in sed a bi-directional converter
dokuwiki <=> asciidoc, to be able to indirectly use po4a for dokuwiki
pages, as there is no dokuwiki module (yet?).
I'll post here when it will be ready (in a few weeks if all goes well).
Also, I have a request, addressed to anyone willing to provide patches
(Marco?): that would be the ability to show anywhere in the UI the
current column number while editing, as in a lot of text editors and in
Lokalize. That _really_ helps, e.g. when translating messages output of
shell scripts whose lines shouldn't wrap.
Unfortunately I never wrote a single line of perl, so I can't do that
myself.
Oh, and please keep perl5 for now as that's what is available in
Slackware...
Thanks and best regards,
Didier