Re: [PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc / global.ent From: Egon Schmid (eschmid <email protected>)
Date: 09/27/01

> Egon Schmid wrote:
> > > It would be the best for all translations to delete
> > > the reference for the entity. It points to a 404
> > > page. Anyway I understand it is needed for the
> > > manuals to build right now, but it points to a
> > > nonexistent page.
> >
> > Please correct this in all affected languages and after that you
can
> > delete this entity.
>
> well, IMHO it's a job of translation maintainers
> to make sure their translated tree works

You could be right if you mean with "translation maintainers"
"translators".

> deleting an invalid entity will bring it to
> their attention that something has to be done
> and they do know how to do it right in their
> language

Translators will only get noticed, if he or she have the possibility
to issue a simple "make test" if someone changed the English tree
and the root directory of phpdoc (e.g. global.ent).

> i myself for instance don't like to deal with
> non-ISO character set files at all

Entities cannot be written in non-ISO character sets.

> the *only* argument against deletion i can see
> is that automatic updates will fail for the
> translated manuals on php.net until a translation
> is fixed

I donīt know the status of this manual updates. Only Rasmus, Jouni
and/or Jim knows about this automatism.

In former times I have sometimes checked the manual generation on
toye.php.net, but it seems that I no longer can connect to toye
(permission denied and host key has changed :(.

-Egon