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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [Idea] Translation manager
From:       Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek () lichota ! net>
Date:       2004-09-08 7:29:45
Message-ID: 413EB4E9.6030104 () lichota ! net
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Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 23:59, Rinse de Vries wrote:
>>I think it is a great idea.
>>The benefit of translations is that it is plain simple to update them: just
>>grab the  po-file, do a msgfmt -o and place the created mo-file in the
>>correct directory.
> 
> Personally what I still do not like is the dependency to msgfmt, as I suppose 
> that only few real users have gettext-devel (or similar) installed.

As far as I can see msgfmt is part of gettext package (not devel) at 
least for Mandrake, Suse and Redhat. And if that becomes a problem 
anyway, I think msgfmt can be ported to some portable and common 
language (for example Perl).

> And generating the .mo files means that there must be some computer power. 
> Stephan Kulow had repeatly written that Scripty was already doing too much...

I suppose that statistics system on i18n.kde.org is already doing msgfmt 
for all translation files (i.e. msgfmt --statistics), so probably the 
job is already done. I don't know if the binary format is the same on 
all platforms (like little- or big-endian, 32/64 bit), if not, users of 
some platforms would have to compile translations themselves. But I 
think we could prepare translations for most common platform(s).

Kind regards

	Krzysztof Lichota
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