Your reply seems targeted at Hartmut instead of me.
On Thu, 10 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:37:14AM -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> > > i know that this is possible, but it is very unconvenient IMHO
> > >
> > > first, "cvs co -l phpdoc" would not be enough, as you'll need the
> > > dbxml-, images- and perhaps howto-subdirectories, too
> >
> > So? cvs upd -d howto dbxml should do quite nicely.
>
> I'm against a split into different languages. 23 MB could be handled even
> with my old 14.4 kB modem. Look at the size for phpweb.
>
> > > and not using the -d option is leading to problems whenever a new
> > > subdirectory is added to the toplevel or 'en'-directory
> >
> > Since en/ is your main working directory you can just run cvs upd -d
> > from there when you want to update or put "upd -d" in your .cvsrc file.
>
> All the years I have used "cvs -z9 update -dP" and had no problems. With
> branching and so on I have problems.
>
> > > ok, right now this does not happen that often, but i'm also thinking
> > > about
> > > an improved translation infrastructure that would pull in english
> > > versions at the function level instead of the extension level as we
> > > have it now (we have a lot of translations that are not that up to date
> > > right now, but usually this hurts due to missing functions that were
> > > added after the translation and not so much due to the translated
> > > parts being outdated)
> >
> > Having each function in a separate file? Ack..
>
> I have discussed this with Hartmut. This is a nice idea, but there is
> actually now way to split the manual into subdirectories (extensions) and
> then each function in a separate file.
>
> > > so after all i'd prefere to have the translations as seperate modules
> > > in CVS
> > >
> > > nothing would change for those of us only working on the original
> > >
> > > translators would have to check out the original first as usual with
> > >
> > > cvs co phpdoc
> > >
> > > and would have to additionaly get their translation language(s) of
> > > choice
> > >
> > > cd phpdoc
> > > cvs co -d de phpdoc-de
> > >
> > > for example
> > > (similar to what you have to do with Zend and TSRM in the php4 source)
> > >
> > > this is a little additional inconvenience on the initial checkout but
> > > after that you don't have to worry about your cvs settings anymore
> >
> > I suppose if there is a really big desire for this from more than one
> > person, than we could setup aliases in CVSROOT/modules for phpdoc:
> >
> > phpdoc -a !de !it !nl phpdoc
> > phpdoc-de -d de phpdoc/de
> >
> > Or something like that.
>
> I can live with the current situation. If not I'll remove some unecessary
> functions to keep the manual small. rtfm() for example :)
>
> -Egon
>
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