On 2 Feb, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> Well, yes, but I guess they wouldn't want to translated them
>> themselves, so why personal i.e. with catalog in the home directory?
> Because it's the only user-writable place on a machine. I only talk
> about installing plug-ins _seperately_ from the gimp.
Okay, that seems reasonable...
>> GIMP itself uses two and a plugin uses also two.
> So this means there is no problem, no?
You can create domains with nearly no limit. Where the files
reside is completely up to, it may even be the homedirectory...
> (gmo == mo, I assume, since I have no idea what I am talking about all
> the time ;)
Yes...
> If that's possible (which commands do I need), then there would be no
> need to deliver the .po files. However, the .mo file format is not
> standardized, so I doubt that it is possible to idsassemble them
> portably.
I have never heard of any problems, so we may treat it as
"incompatibilites not known".
The command you're asking for is msgunfmt...
> I think it's not too unreasonable to requre gettext for installing
> plug-ins. It's a bit awkward when you only want to install binary
> plug-ins, but since gettext itself is rather inadequate I don'T aim
> for the perfect solution, just something that works.
I'm no fan of further dependencies you know...
> That would require yet another dependency to a compression
> library/program that might not be available. OTOH, we might just as
> well require gzip, since the plug-in packages are most probably packed
> with it anyway.
Without gzip you are simply lost in UNIX space...
> Daniel, do you know how to modify the Makefiles to do that,
Yes....
> and where
> a good place to store these files is (probably just besides the .mo
> files)?
That would be reasonable... You just have to choose sensible filenames
because the files gettext is searching for is depending on the
domainname you request a translation for.
> There must be a simple way to find them though (a gimptool
> switch, maybe)?
Would be possible.
--
Servus,
Daniel
