Hi, From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I18N (Multibyte Enablation) of debconf Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:01:48 -0400
> I think I prefer the idea of a separate package. I think that making it > use the same interface as Text::Wrap, as you have, is a good idea. I > also think you'd do well to make the separate package as general-purpose > as you can, so it is not tied to debconf and could be used by other perl > programs that need to word-wrap i18nized text. Put it on CPAN, etc. I wrote separate packages of libtext-wrapi18n-perl and libtext-charwidth-perl. The reason why I made as many as two additional packages is that libtext-wrapi18n-perl is architecture independent while libtext-charwidth-perl is architecture dependent. When I designed these packages, I kept in mind to balance simplicity and generality. Especially, introduction of architecture-dependent part helped reducing code size drastically. Also, I tried to keep portability. I made debconf to Depends: on these packages. Thus, priority of these new packages must be higher or equal to "important". These packages, new patch for debconf, and new patched package of debconf are available at: http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/debconf as usual. Please test them and/or give comments. Since this is my first experience to write Perl module and XSUB packages, these packages may have basic mistakes. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
