Install Guide now in Publican

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:01:10AM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> So would I be correct in thinking that's not what Publican does, and
>> that entities are only supposed to be used in Publican docs to
>> represent non-translatables like a year or a company name?
>>   
> Yes, that's correct. Publican is built on the KDE tool xml2pot, not the  
> GNOME tool xml2po, and xml2pot doesn't have the "-e" option that xml2po  
> does.
>
> Publican uses xml2pot because it is /significantly/ faster than xml2po,   
> which is important when handling the huge documents that we work with in  
> Red Hat Engineering Content Services. To put the difference in  
> perspective: while Publican was in early development, conversions of the  
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide (a document of around 300,000  
> words) were done with both tools. Xml2pot finished the entire run in all  
> 23 languages around the same time that xml2po finished the /first/ 
> language!

Having sat through our toolchain's build process innumerable times, I
definitely see your point.  Not sure why the xml2po tool hasn't been
fully ported to C at this point, but meh.

> That said, there are such obvious advantages to using entities such as  
> &DISTRO; so this is something that will no doubt be revisited if and when 
> xml2pot ever gets an option equivalent to "-e". But for now, we just can't 
> do it.

*nod*

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