Re: translation size

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

(To clarify for i18n list: this is about translation of documentation,
not about .po files)

I am not sure about other packages - better ask on desktop-devel list
what maintainers think - but for gnome-user-docs (mainly user guide), we
definitely want localized packages, so that we have gnome-user-docs,
gnome-user-docs-es, gnome-user-docs-ru, etc. I do not think it is really
necessary to  rename the main (English) package to  gnome-user-docs-en,
since English (or, rather, C) is the default language. Hope no one is
offended by that :)

FYI: KDE (at least, in KDE 2.x) managed this problem by having "language
support packages", like kde-i18n-fr, which contains all available French
translations of  docs and all .mo files  for fr locale, for *all* KDE
apps. Of course, this also creates problems: e.g., when French
translations for one of the  apps are updated, this whole package needs
updating. It also requires really good communication between maintainers
of all the packages involved. 

Sasha 


On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 08:20, John Fleck wrote:
> Folks -
> We will face a new (and good) problem soon, when the Sun team starts
> making available a multitude of translations. My question involves size:
> if simply included in the tarballs, will these add significantly to
> their size? Is there an alternative that would allow users to pull down
> tarballs only for their language of choice?
> Has this already been thought through?
> Cheers,
> John
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