[Newbies] Re: Delete translations

[Bert Freudenberg]

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- Bert -

On Oct 24, 2007, at 13:00 , stephane ducasse wrote:

>
> On 23 oct. 07, at 16:00, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> Per-package translation files can provide translations for a  
>> specific class category. This overrides the default translation  
>> file provided with the system. We are testing this with DrGeoII in  
>> fact, we made a DrGeoII.mo file and place that next to the  
>> etoys.mo file containing the system translations, and translations  
>> from the new file will get picked up for all classes in the  
>> DrGeoII-* categories.
>
> Ok I would have to really have a look to understand.
> With hilaire we always wanted to have translations attached to  
> packages.
>>
>> This work is not finished and integrated yet, but supporting  
>> independent translations for add-on packages has been a design  
>> requirement from the beginning, since we do want to support those  
>> additions as well as possible.
>>
>> To get features like this into the squeak.org version, someone  
>> would have to take on the task of "harvesting" interesting things  
>> from the OLPC etoys update stream.
>
> yes I would like to do this task if I participate to the 3.11
> Now I was wondering how I could keep tracks of this (besides  
> reading the changesets)
>
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:35 , stephane ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> Bert
>>>
>>> How do you store the translations?
>>> Because it would be cool to get them per packages as ressources  
>>> package.
>>> I know that OLPC does not have mc but it would be good for Squeak.
>>>
>>> I would like to see a merge or flow from OLPC new features to  
>>> Squeak.
>>> What would be the process to make sure that nothing is lost for  
>>> squeak?
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>>
>>>> Actually, we do not use NLT anymore for OLPC. We exported all  
>>>> translations to po files:
>>>>
>>>> https://translations.launchpad.net/etoys/first-deployment/+pots/ 
>>>> etoys
>>>>
>>>> This lets use use the "gettext" translation tools that are the  
>>>> standard in Linux.
>>>>
>>>>> It is very easy to add languages, merge, etc, but I do not find  
>>>>> how to delete one of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another question:
>>>>> Which is Babel function?
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what the question is.
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>