Re: [perldoc2-developers] General Questions

[Joergen W. L. <joe...@gm...>]

Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek schrieb:
> Joergen W. Lang said:
>> I'd prefer an "out of the box" approach as much as possible unless we
>> have a really good reason not to.
> 
> Define "out of the box"? No external dependencies? This would be hard.
> That's why I proposed using PAR for distribution.

If a web-framework already offers the features we need we should not 
reinvent/reimplement without good cause.

>>> Also a possibility. Although I see the "other projects" and "whole
>>> different languages" target groups more fit to this way of distribution.

>> That would oppose the "simple" principle, though. After all the
>> application itself does not really have to be "distributed", it's the
>> services it offers - and they are distributed over HTTP, etc.
> 
> Yes, but as I have stated a few mails earlier, this application would have
> large potencial to be useful for other projects too. Or do you want to
> host all possible translation projects on this one server?

To be honest, I didn't think of this at all. But I can see your point. 
And I do not think, it would add more complexity to the project if we 
keep in mind that it should be portable to other servers, too. Under 
these circumstances apachefriends XAMPP might actually be not so bad at 
all. Did you ever try it? I mean, installing and configuring a LAMP by 
hand *can* be tedious. XAMPP does it in a few minutes.

>>> Which might be a much better fit. Sidenote: Of course I mean the
>>> translation platform itself, not the hosting of the finally translated
>>> files.

>> Oh - really? :o)
>>
>> Let's hope the translated files eventually reside on peoples harddrives
>> or under xx.perldoc.perl.org.
> 
> This would be the best, yes :)

Basically we have "go" for finished translations of the "actual" version.

>>> For that I'd think a sort of export (e.g. into the projects SVN, so
>>> everyone, including the $lang.perldoc.perl.org space can easily stay up
>>> to date) would be a much better fit for that.

Joergen