On 08.03.2012, at 15:29, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:

> On 3/8/12 12:28 PM, "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 
>> Thirdly, we need developers to port the localization improvements from Etoys
>> to Squeak trunk. Actually we need developers to port all Etoys improvements,
>> not just localization, but that's for another day maybe ;)
> 
> I volunteer for doing

Thank you!

>  under direction of some guy at VPRI.
> Contact me private if you wish.


VPRI as an institution has nothing to do with Etoys anymore, since 2009. We're all volunteers now, just like Squeak.org.

You could start by getting the GetText package into Squeak, replacing the NaturalLanguageTranslator. And then add all the "translated" calls to all the menus and UI labels as we did in the Etoys image.

However, we will need to start thinking about how to manage auxiliary files that we want to distribute with the image. That's not only translations, but e.g. loadable packages, too, or (gasp) documentation. Possibly these could just be added in the release building process, but maybe they should live in a repository somewhere, too. (for Etoys we use http://etoys.squeak.org/svn/trunk/)

- Bert -