On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:46:10PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > many piece of code are similar in various scripts, e.g. check_trans.pl > and stattrans.pl both parse CVS/Entries files to retrieve revision numbers. > It would be IMO very valuable to write small Perl modules and call them > instead of duplicating code.
Indeed. > For instance, here is a (documented, yeah ;)) Cvsinfo.pm package which > performs the task mentioned above, and check_trans.pm is a modified > version to use it; this script also fixes the bug about documents whose > original is not English. > > To try it, create a webwml/Perl/ directory and put Cvsinfo.pm there. > Feel free to comment the `use lib' trick (in check_trans.pm) and propose > a better solution, the currently one is not very satisfactory, but it > seems to work. Putting Perl/ in there would probably require a kludge here and there, but if you're willing to work on this I will only watch ;) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.