Revert "po: do not inject custom bestlink function when po_link_to eq default"

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / po.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
index 30f2e158efb103383b39cd96bb0cf60a095d45fe..38b6b12cdefdd80c897baaaf05e794bc5ef27d08 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn
@@ -253,15 +253,6 @@ once [[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch is merged.
 An integration branch, called `meta-po`, merges [[intrigeri]]'s `po`
 and `meta` branches, and thus has this additional features.
 
-Self links
-----------
-
-If a page contains a WikiLink to itself, ikiwiki does not normally
-turn that into a hyperlink. However, if a translated page contains a
-WikiLink to itself, a hyperlink is inserted, at least with the default
-`po_link_to` the link points to the English version of the page. Is there a
-good reason for that to be done? --[[Joey]] 
-
 Language display order
 ----------------------
 
@@ -271,22 +262,6 @@ order, as `po_slave_languages` is a hash. It would need to be converted
 to an array to support this. (If twere done, twere best done quickly.)
 --[[Joey]] 
 
-Duplicate %links ?
-------------------
-
-I notice code in the scan hook that seems to assume
-that %links will accumulate duplicate links for a page.
-That used to be so, but the bug was fixed. Does this mean
-that po might be replacing the only link on a page, in error? 
---[[Joey]] 
-
-Name of toplevel index page
----------------------------
-
-Normally at the top index page of a wiki, you see the wiki name at
-the top. However, at the top *translated* index page, you see something
-like "index.da". --[[Joey]] 
-
 Pagespecs
 ---------
 
@@ -307,7 +282,12 @@ pages as edit links, as if those pages do not exist.
 That's really confusing, especially as clicking such a link
 brings up an edit form to create a new, english page.
 
-This is with po_link_to=current. With default, it doesn't happen..
+This is with po_link_to=current or negotiated. With default, it doesn't
+happen.. 
+
+Also, this may only happen if the page being linked to is coming from an
+underlay, and the underlays lack translation to a given language.
+--[[Joey]] 
 
 Double commits of po files
 --------------------------
@@ -321,7 +301,43 @@ and then committed again. The second commit makes this change:
        +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
 
 Same thing happens when a change to an existing page triggers a po file
-update.
+update. --[[Joey]] 
+
+Ugly messages with empty files
+------------------------------
+
+If there are empty .mdwn files, the po plugin displays some ugly messages.
+
+Translation of directives
+-------------------------
+
+If a translated page contains a directive, it may expand to some english
+text, or text in whatever single language ikiwiki is configured to "speak".
+
+Maybe there could be a way to switch ikiwiki to speaking another language
+when building a non-english page? Then the directives would get translated.
+
+2 test suite failures
+--------------------
+
+t/po is currently failing tests 57 and 59 (and I would like to release
+soon..) --[[Joey]] 
+
+> They are failing because of commit cdc3576c8d1e (po: do not inject
+> custom bestlink function when `po_link_to` eq `default`). The test
+> suite changes `$config{po_link_to}`, but the `checkconfig` hook is
+> not re-run. I could manually run it when needed in the test-suite,
+> but this would lead to this function being injected several times,
+> and then `$origsubs{'bestlink'}` to be sometimes set to a wrong
+> value, which would break other parts of the test-suite. The best
+> solution I can think of (apart of reverting this commit or disabling
+> these two tests) is to split the test-suite into 3 parts, depending
+> on the `$config{po_link_to}` setting, either in 3 different `.t`
+> files, or inside the existing one and completely reset the IkiWiki
+> environment at the start of these parts... which I did not manage to
+> achieve in the last 2 hours :/ --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>> I've reverted it. --[[Joey]] 
 
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