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need pod-to-man translator #5441

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p6rt opened this issue Jul 9, 2016 · 7 comments
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need pod-to-man translator #5441

p6rt opened this issue Jul 9, 2016 · 7 comments

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p6rt commented Jul 9, 2016

Migrated from rt.perl.org#128587 (status was 'new')

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p6rt commented Jul 9, 2016

From @tbrowder

Need a pod2man translator.

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p6rt commented Jul 11, 2016

From @coke

On Sat Jul 09 13​:51​:07 2016, tbrowder wrote​:

Need a pod2man translator.

Does this need to be shipped with the rakudo compiler?
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Will "Coke" Coleda

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p6rt commented Jul 11, 2016

From @coke

On Sat Jul 09 13​:51​:07 2016, tbrowder wrote​:

Need a pod2man translator.

Does this need to be shipped with the rakudo compiler?
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Will "Coke" Coleda

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p6rt commented Jul 12, 2016

From @tbrowder

On Monday, July 11, 2016, Will Coleda via RT <bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org
<javascript​:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org');>> wrote​:

On Sat Jul 09 13​:51​:07 2016, tbrowder wrote​:

Need a pod2man translator.
Does this need to be shipped with the rakudo compiler?

Since the perl6 program --help once mentioned the perl6 man page, maybe it
should.

-Tom

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p6rt commented Jul 12, 2016

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I think any pod2man translator program should be separate from Rakudo itself.

If --help mentions a man page, it's probably sufficient to ship Rakudo
with an already-translated man page, rather than shipping the translator.

Pm

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04​:34​:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote​:

On Monday, July 11, 2016, Will Coleda via RT
<[1]bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org> wrote​:

 On Sat Jul 09 13&#8203;:51&#8203;:07 2016, tbrowder wrote&#8203;:
 > Need a pod2man translator\.
 Does this need to be shipped with the rakudo compiler?

Since the perl6 program --help once mentioned the perl6 man page, maybe
it should.

-Tom

References

1. javascript​:_e({},'cvml','bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org');

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p6rt commented Jul 12, 2016

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On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud@​pobox.com> wrote​:

I think any pod2man translator program should be separate from Rakudo
itself.

If --help mentions a man page, it's probably sufficient to ship Rakudo
with an already-translated man page, rather than shipping the translator.

Very true--the voice of reason!

But shouldn't all the pod6-to-X translators live together and share lots of
common code (such as ShimmerFairy's planned pod6 grammar)?

-Tom

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p6rt commented Jul 12, 2016

From @pmichaud

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 08​:48​:59AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote​:

If --help mentions a man page, it's probably sufficient to ship Rakudo
with an already-translated man page, rather than shipping the translator.

Very true--the voice of reason!

But shouldn't all the pod6-to-X translators live together and share
lots of common code (such as ShimmerFairy's planned pod6 grammar)?

Sure, it's reasonable for pod6-to-X translators to live together; but Rakudo (compiler) isn't the place for that. Better is to have the translators as modules, and then bundle them into a distribution like a Rakudo Star or the like.

Pm

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