Re: difficulties with Gimp Translation

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> Aren't there *a lot* of plugins? I'm afraid that would become a lot of
> modules if they should each have their own module...

yes, there are quite a few.

> What I had in mind was more of a split-up in modules according to what
> translation catalogs are there today:
> 
> cvs module      po directory
> ----------------------------
> gimp            po
> gimp-libgimp    po
> gimp-perl       po
> gimp-plugins    po
> gimp-script-fu  po
> 
> That would make the process rather straight-forward for translators,
> because it is similar to how things are organized elsewhere in cvs.
> 
> I can also imagine that it could become easier also for maintainers from
> a software maintenance point of view since the different modules can be
> maintained, branched and released independantly if needed, but that's
> just a guess from my point of view (perhaps this is already possible or
> not needed).

actually, from a maintainability point of view, we consider it most
important to move most of the plug-ins out of the main tree. This is
being discussed for a long time but I don't yet see it happen in a the
near future.


Salut, Sven