reopen 354742
severity 354742 minor
forwarded 354742 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426925
stop
Hi,
This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/354742>.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006, Holger Duerer wrote:
> I don't agree that the data file has to be so large. Just removing
> the needles whitespace (empty lines, leading space used for
> indentation) remove a substantial amount of cruft.
>
> Not including "translations" that are the same as the original name
> itself, makes a dramatic reduction (down to about 6.4MB).
Thanks for your interesting comment!
I've opened an upstream bug against intltool-merge which is used to
generate Locations.xml from po-locations/*.po. I tried stripping
spaces as you suggested, but this only saved some 16% at the expense of
making the file unreadable in my text editor. :-)
gzipping the file made for a 86% compression, which is way more
interesting. (Removing blanks before gzipping only made a 0.7%
compression difference).
If you have some XSL powers and removing translated strings identical
to the untranslated template truly compresses the file, I'm interested
in hooking this in the build process. I expect gzipping will still
give better results, so I would take a patch to implement gzipping as
well. :)
Bye,
--
Loïc Minier
