Re: Localized PODs

At Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:55:33 -0900,
Sean M. Burke wrote:
> >I'd hope there would be a way, though, to somehow know that the big5 
> >encoding wasn't updated, but en was. If for nothing else, to alert an 
> >author during a 'make dist'... "Hey Pal! Update the X, Y and Z POD encodings!"
> 
> I hope you mean "version" when you say "encoding".
> 
> With that reading, I know just what you mean -- it's a very tricky 
> problem.  It's my feeling that there are solutions, but they all have 
> reliability and simplicity as /competing/ goals, and you can't get one 
> without giving up part of the other.
> 
> I'm tending toward believing that a system that keeps a dozen translations 
> of perlfunc wonderfully in sync, would be a bloated disaster if applied to 
> smaller projects (namely, a small module with one doc in English and 
> another in Italian, for example).

we're running perldoc.jp for POD translastion into Japanese. we use
sourceforge CVS to keep track of original module updates, rathar than
just including translations into each modules distros.

http://perldoc.jp/


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