Hello Hartmut and all other readers of this thread,
Thursday, May 10, 2001, 5:03:09 PM, you wrote:
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.
> i'm not talking about myself here, i know enough about CVS to do
> all this by hand
> but the average translator might not be up to that level
> it's not easy to find people that are up to using all the tools
> needed to work on the manual, and everything we can do to make it
> easier or more convenient would be a good thing IMHO
> and reducing the checkout size from ~25MB to ~6MB for the pure
> english manual and about ~10MB for a complete translation
> with the additional benefit of faster updates could be a good start
i am a average translator and i am a bloody beginner in cvs.
few weeks ago i started to help with german translation.
at my point of view i strongly aggree to hartmut. the easier and more
convenient the more people maybe willing and able to help with the
translation. the point for me as ordinary translator is the
translation itself, not the technical stuff around.
there´s no question i am willing to deal with the basic stuff of cvs
and getting the appropriate files from phpdoc. further on, it would be
nice to reduce the checkout size (poor student with a modem) and i really
don't need all the other languages i am not working on.
a short description from a person familiar with cvs (and
with enough time to do this) how to check out only the needed files
could help for the problem with the checkout size.
>> Having each function in a separate file? Ack..
> do you have a better idea on how to solve the 'missing functions'
> problem in translation?
> right now configure will take care for missing stuff in translations
> on the file level, this could easily be extended to another level
> of subdirectories and files
> and, as an additional benefit, we would finaly get a chance to have
> functions alphabeticaly sorted without a great amount of dsssl magic
> but all this is a very different story and i don't want to talk
> about this any further right now without knowing how much this would
> hurt performance
i can say nothing about the technical background nore the performance,
the building of the manual and so on.
the "missing functions" problem led me to help with translation.
solving the problem of "missing functions" in any way would be great!
>> 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.
> that might be an alternative to my original idea, have to look at it
> (thats why i asked for suggestions and comments in the first place ;)
just the opinion from a really novice without any knowledge of the
whole technical stuff.
greetings
friedhelm
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