Re: [Po4a-dev] Re: [Po4a-cvs] po4a/po/pod fr.po po4a-pod.pot

[Martin Quinson]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:05:25AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:54:35PM -0500, Barbier wrote:
> > Modified files:
> >     po/pod         : fr.po po4a-pod.pot 
> > 
> > Log message:
> >     Update, and add some translated strings.
> 
> But some blank lines are missing in the translated POD files.

This is because the pod parser used as ground for the corresponding po4a
module is a damned bastard, eating stuff without repporting to the using
program. 

So, po4a has no way to see when empty lines were silencely eaten, and I have
to rely  on tricks to reintroduce those lines afterward. I see 3 solutions:
 - fix Pod::Parser to let it stop eating blank lines.
 - do not rely on this module in order to be able to fix it without having
   to wait 2 years for the fix to go into the debian stable archive
 - add too much lines. But it will break the tests trying to prove that the
   module is idempotent, ie po4a-normalize will never output what it did read.
   
The third solution may be the better way to go. We could always cheat on the
tests by giving a file on which there is no pb as input to -normalize, ie a
file with already too much lines which mimicks the bugs of that kind.
And of course, test break is better than functionnality break ;)



Could you please provide me an example of missing blank lines? blank lines
before a command are recommanded and produce a warning if missing, but
shouldn't induce error, IIRC.

Thanks, Mt.

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