[parted-devel] help2man

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> Related to this, I'd like to remove the dependency on po4a in
>>> parted. Is anyone opposed to this?
>>
>> Please David, explain why you want to do that? It does very well
>> supporting multiple language manpages in an easy way and I don't see
>> any reason to remove it.
>
> It might be my lack of understanding, but I don't see why we need po4a
> over GNU gettext.  It seems to be the same kind of stuff.  Can we not
> use the msg*(1) commands from gettext to maintain multi language man
> pages?  How are other projects do this (or do they)?

It's a set of utilities that allow us to translate ascii files, using
gettext as backend. It's not trivial to do that without po4a.

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