[Po4a-devel] Bug#827936: po4a: please implement support for Ruby document format

[Martin Quinson]

Hello Francesco,

I had a quick lookup at your work, and it looks very promising to me. 

A first point would be to convert your tests to a proper test of our
infrastructure, somewhere under t/ Once you have some automated tests,
I will happily integrate your work in the main archive.

Then, the next step will be to test your work against the existing
Ruby documentation, and fix it until it works properly. I saw the
documented limitations, but I'm not sure of how bad they are,
considering the existing Ruby documentation.

When it will work with the existing doc, you will have a good selling
point to discuss with the Ruby community.

In any case, many thanks for this contribution, that's good work.

Kudos, Mt.

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:15:08PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 15:00:11 +0200 Martin Quinson wrote:
> 
> > Hello Francesco,
> 
> Hello Martin,
> thank you so much for writing me!
> 
> Your message is really appreciated, as I was just going to send an
> update today (an astonishing coincidence!).
> 
> > 
> > did you manage to do any progress on this front?
> 
> It was an interesting ride in the last two months, and the time devoted
> to the development of the po4a module was not so abundant...
> But, nonetheless, I've just come up with the attached version of the Rd
> module.
> The tar archive includes the module implementation and a little
> document to test it (the tests/ directory also contains the various
> output files and two scripts).
> 
> > Is there anything I could do to help?
> 
> Yes, there is.
> 
> Could you please
> 
>  * review the code I wrote
> 
>  * review the documentation I added (I haven't tried to convert it into
>    a man page with POD tools, so bear with me!)
> 
>  * test the module with po4a
> 
> and tell me how the module could be improved?
> 
> Thanks for your time and helpfulness!
> Bye.
> 
> 
> 
> P.S.: Please remember to keep me in Cc, when replying (as I am not
>       subscribed to the mailing list or to the bug). Thanks.
> 
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