Thanks for your reply, Christian. :)
On 15/04/2006, at 6:50 PM, Christian Rose wrote:
On 4/15/06, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I started, I thought keeping PO files in a separate directly was
a bad idea. It distanced the PO file from the source.
I am still of that opinion. :-)
Having the PO files in the applications makes it easier to find
internationalization bugs in the applications and gives important
context to translators who can read source code.
True. This is my overall opinion, too.
Also, half the time in KDE, I don't even know to which applications
the files belong. That makes it extremely difficult to report typos
against them (as does the five-page bug-reporting "wizard" that wants
my name, serial number and favourite type of noodles before I can
report simple typos).
However, I don't think you can update all the POTs, for example, for
a range of separate directories, without updating everything else.
Having all the POTs in one directory really does help.
However, I do appreciate that having a simple way of getting all the
current POT files helps new teams a lot. As a consequence, years ago I
requested there be a link on the status pages where you could download
a tarball with "all current POT files for developer-libs" and a
tarball with "all current POT files for desktop". I imagine that would
not be a very complicated feature to add.
Yes, this is the part that I also think could be useful. I gather it
didn't happen...
However, concerning new features, the translation status pages have
basically been unmaintained for several years now.
That's a great pity. :(
Perhaps this will become easier when we move to Pootle. I do not know.
Perhaps someone experienced working with Pootle can answer that.
(And I do not know when Pootle will happen, either)
I'll <poke> Dwayne on the Pootle list. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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