6.03.2018 21:33 Mario Blättermann <mario.blaetterm...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > Unused strings can help to find a good translation for another string. > Well, nowadays the GUI tools like Poedit do this work using their > translation memory. But you must not expect that just everyone works > with specialized GUI editors. Maybe some (or some more, who knows...?) > people prefer simple text editors, and in that case the unused strings > can become very helpful.
This sounds like a good reason not to remove the strings, even unused. > > > > In the extreme cases, if the translation is too incomplete and > > unmaintained for too long one may consider removing the language > > from the project. > > Who is "one" in this case? Who makes the decision that it's okay to > throw other's work away? [...] A project maintainer/developer? I don't know. I'm not telling that one should remove the files but just in case if someone find them not useful enough. There are lots of cases, including the extreme ones where only 1 or 2 strings are translated. > In general, I'm in doubt about the benefit of your plans. This is not my plan. My plan, or rather a suggestion, is not to touch anything because it does not hurt. But I'm not speaking on behalf of any project here. Take it as my own opinion. > A shrinking > of 3,3% of the tarball size is no real benefit. A (maybe) better > workflow for grep is no real benefit. With some clever grep calls, it > doesn't matter how big or "trashed" a file is. And last but not least, > you won't benefit from removing old and unmaintained po files, because > they don't cause extra work for you. I fully agree with you. Regards, Rafal _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
