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Re: Improve modularity of toplevel Perl scripts



On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:13:22PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:44:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> [...]
> > > For instance, here is a (documented, yeah ;)) Cvsinfo.pm package which
> > > performs the task mentioned above, and check_trans.pm is a modified
> > > version to use it; this script also fixes the bug about documents whose
> > > original is not English.
> > > 
> > > To try it, create a webwml/Perl/ directory and put Cvsinfo.pm there.
> > > Feel free to comment the `use lib' trick (in check_trans.pm) and propose
> > > a better solution, the currently one is not very satisfactory, but it
> > > seems to work.
> > 
> > Putting Perl/ in there would probably require a kludge here and there, but
> > if you're willing to work on this I will only watch ;)
> 
> All right, then I'll go ahead and commit changes in few days, in case
> someone wants to object.  If you prefer another name for the Perl/
> directory or have any suggestions for naming scheme convention, I'll be
> glad to hear.
> 
> My roadmap is (not necessary in chronological order):
>   a) commit modified versions of all scripts reading CVS/Entries files
>      to use this Cvsinfo module: check_trans.pl, remove_stale.pl
>      stattrans.pl, touch_translations.pl, and maybe also
>      french/international/french/ltcp.pl

Well, what about spanish/intl/spanish/ltcp.pl ? They exists, don't they ?

>   b) write a module to manage lists of files not to consider for
>      translation purpose
>   c) write a module to get language list from wml::debian::languages

Do you means the translated name or only the english one ?

>   d) work with Martin quinson to improve english/international/l10n/scripts/ 

Yuhu ! I'll be glad to help to rewrite my crap scripts !


e) (this is in my TODO list) Merge the version of check_trans.pl on my
machine which can mail the translators when needed and the cleaner version
you'll do.


Bye, Mt.



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