RE: Localized PODs

[email protected] (Burak Gürsoy) Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:55:07 +0200
Newsgroups perl.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
uhmm... also there is a turkish pod translation project started by me:
http://trperl.sourceforge.net/
based on 5.8 pods.

But I'm the only active member for now and didnt release an important pod
yet...
perlfunc has finished but not on the site now...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean M. Burke [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:52 PM
> To: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
> Cc: [email protected]; Autrijus Tang; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Localized PODs
>
>
> At 09:26 PM 2003-01-30 +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
> >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.
>
> Yes, this is the unfortunate problem: Pod is great for writing
> module docs,
> because module docs aren't big and complicated.  But the
> documentation for
> Perl IS big and complicated, and so at some point it just needs its own
> solutions for things like keeping everything in sync.
>
> And I'm absolutely amazed and impressed by people who can keep up
> with the
> immense task of translating a docbase that's not just big and
> complicated,
> but is constantly changing!  It's amazing!  I'd be a nervous
> wreck if I had
> to face a problem even one tenth as big.  But there it is,
> http://perldoc.jp/ , and it works!
>
> --
> Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
>