[Po4a-devel] Bug#827936: po4a: please implement support for Ruby document format

[Martin Quinson]

Hello,

the truth is that the development of po4a is kinda stopped since a few
years. We do the basic maintainance, like reviewing and applying
proposed patches (with some delays), but I don't manage to devote any
time to the new wanted features myself. I'm sorry about that, but this
is a fact.

As a result, I think that you should develop this module yourself. I
understand that Perl will make your brain burn as a Ruby programmer,
but at the end, developping a new module for po4a is very easy. And I
can guide you in this process if you go that way.

Check the doc on writing a new module, here:
  man Locale::Po4a::TransTractor

I think that this is a good idea to keep both the upstream list and
the debian bug in CC while discussing it. It will ensure both a good
diffusion and a good archiving of the discussions.

Good luck, Mt.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:35:21PM +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Package: po4a
> Version: 0.47-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello and thanks for developing po4a.
> 
> As discussed on the po4a-devel mailing list [1], it would be great
> if po4a supported the Ruby document format [2].
> 
> [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/po4a-devel/2016-June/002364.html
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Document_format
> 
> Could you please implement support for it in an appropriate module,
> so that I could, for instance, do something like:
> 
>   $ po4a-gettextize -f rd -m apt-listbugs -p doc-apt-listbugs.pot
> 
> The Ruby document format is processed by package rdtool (among other
> possible tools) and is described in its documentation [3].
> 
> [3] https://github.com/uwabami/rdtool/blob/master/doc/rd-draft.rd
> 
> I hope implementing this additional module is not too hard.
> Please let me know.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your time!
> Bye.
> 

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