Delete translations

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Wed Oct 24 17:00:17 UTC 2007


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 -
>
>
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