On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:02:43AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > It's a fact of open source software that things are only taken > seriously if the contributor to the project NEEDS/WANTS it. I don't > think i18n is a huge deal to any of our developers, so this won't come > up as a high priority for any of us. > > That is not to say that i18n is *unimportant*. It most certainly is > not. But I know for a fact that it will get done much faster by > someone who actually cares about translations. > > My suggestion: find someone willing to write a patch for the installer > who actually cares about i18n. If you expect the devs to do it > themselves, then it will get done, just not as quickly as you'd > expect, which may end up frustrating you. > > The installer has a git repo here: > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=summary > Find someone to patch in gettext macros (see makepkg for a good > implementation), and it will get applied very quickly. Otherwise, we > have much more pressing matters to spend our time on (i.e. getting out > the next ISO) >
I just saw through the makepkg script, adding gettext support seems to be easy. I'll start work on it on the weekend. Regards, -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgpkeys.mit.edu
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