Re: Adding translations

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tor 2002-09-26 klockan 00.33 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > * Always check your file with "msgfmt -cv LL.po" before all commits, to
> > catch some easily made syntactic errors that might otherwise crash the
> > software at runtime, and other errors.
> 
> I need to know what is LL.po - is it just a notation for the
> language in question - ie. da.po for Danish - or is there a specific
> file? (people are nagging me for a LL.po file...)

It's just a notation for the language code in question. Replace "LL"
with your language code.


> > * Make sure the po file doesn't have the executable bit (+x) set before
> > committing. There's no point in storing the po file as an executable in
> > cvs.
> > 
> > * Always add a ChangeLog entry when you add or change stuff in CVS. This
> > is important to be able to easily see what file was added or changed at
> > what point. A ChangeLog entry should preferrably look something like:
> 
> Why? Is there not a CVS log and is that not appropiate.

Malcolm gave a good explanation. Reading ChangeLogs doesn't require CVS
access and makes history also easily available for those looking in a
tarball, among other things. Thus, adding ChangeLog entries is a very
good practice.


Christian