Re: [Po4a-dev]. Version 0.12: Sgml debiandoc is handled !

[Martin Quinson]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:56:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:16:04PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > Hello, I'm pleased to announce the version 0.12 of po4a. Here is the
> > changelog:
> > 
> >   * Rename po4a-identity to po4a-normalize, since it do normalize the
> >     source document.
> >   * We now have a decent documentation in po4a(7)
> >   * Several small bug and glitches fix all over there.
> >   * New module: SGML
> 
> Congratulations ;)

Thanks.

> >     - This is the long awaited sgml module !
> >     - So far, it can handle only the debiandoc dtd but extending it to other
> >       ones should be quite easy. 
> >     - For now, this adds a strict dependence on libsgmls-perl and sp since
> >       I didn't implement the check for existing libraries, like debconf 
> > does 
> >       for curse.
> 
> We need this dependency; debconf can handle several frontends, and if
> dialog is not installed, one can switch to other frontends.
> If libsgmls-perl is not installed, there is no way to process SGML documents,
> so this is very different.

Yes, but you can handle pod and man pages without this dependency. I'm
really not sure what the right way is.

> > You can find it at:
> > http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/debian
> > 
> > Spread the good news !
> > 
> > Bye, Mt.
> > PS: Denis, could you upload it, please?
> 
> Ok, please file an ITP (e.g. with reportbug's help), this will give me
> some time to have a deeper look into po4a ;)

I'll do that.