PS: this is no april's fool ;) On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 09:35:52PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > > I think that the current configuration format [1] is hindering the > usability of po4a. I would like to redesign it, for example as a YAML > file. One could dream of something similar to the gitlab-ci.yml format > [2] or the travis one [3]. > > [1] described somewhere in https://po4a.org/man/man1/po4a.1.php > [2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/ > [3] https://config.travis-ci.com/ > > The thing is that I'm not really sure of what I want to build here, > because I think that it's not only a problem of converting the > existing formatting to YAML and that we could do a better job. > > I searched a bit on the internet, and it seems that there is a really > large amount of projects using po4a (which is cool :) [4]. I was > looking to see how people are using po4a. Many seem to generate these > po4a.conf files. This is another argument for the redesign :) > > [4] https://github.com/search?q=%22po4a.conf%22&type=Code > > This is it. I'm requesting design ideas, please. I think it can be > made simple, but I'm short in ideas myself. > > We don't need no formal specification, but some examples that will > hopefully be self-explanatory. It'd be really helpful if all users > could send the config file of their dream for their project. Please > send them here on the list for others to comment, and forward this > call for dreamt config file to any interested parties. > > Thanks for your help, > Mt. > > -- > Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian Kernighan
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