[Po4a-devel] Deprecating the po4a-build script?

[Brian Exelbierd]

I take the lack of response to be a huge +1 here :)  I encourage a 1 year termination date barring objection.

regards,

bex

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, at 1:39 AM, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering whether some is actually using po4a-build. It seems
> that this binary is superseeded by po4a(1), and I don't see any
> po4a-build.conf file in the whole Debian archive:
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=po4a-build.conf
> 
> There is 437 mentions of this file on github, but it seems to be
> several copies of a file coming named 0.41-po4a-build.patch aiming at
> improving the performance of that script. That seems to come from
> gentoo, somehow (and the patch does not apply anymore).
> 
> If I extend to po4a-build on github, it seems that many people are
> packaging po4a in various distro, but I cannot find any use of the
> po4a-build script. Did I miss something?
> 
> 
> I am considering deprecating this binary, ie having it displaying a
> big fat warning "The po4a-build script will soon be removed. Please
> switch to po4a(1), or report to the po4a maintainers" and pausing for
> five seconds. This behavior could be disabled by setting some
> environment variable, maybe. 
> 
> Then, if nobody comes back to us after 1 or 2 years, we could remove
> this binary. Less code to maintain, less doc to translate, less
> technical debt.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> Mt.
> 
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