On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:03:56PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 5/17/10 1:58 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > > > Nobody likes Perl, but sadly we're stuck with it for texi2html for the > > foreseeable future. > > John Mandereau was working on a texinfo parser in python, which, if it > works, should allow us to get away from texi2html. But I don't know what > his current status on that is....
I believe that my phrase "for the foreseeable future" is accurate. Now, it might occur that once texi2html is merged with texinfo, somebody might create a way of using python functions for the perl texi2html's hooks (I'm certain that a general way of mixing perl+python already exists), and that we could use this to write our own functions in python. Of course, if that's happening, then we might as well send any generally-useful patches upstream (such as writing filenames in lower-case). And also move the translations into a data file instead of having them directly in the init file. Those two items would probably reduce the size of the current init file to about 33% of the current size, making it much more maintainable even without switching to python. That said, I believe that my phrase "for the foreseeable future" is still accurate. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
