LINGUAS (was: Re: Problem of adding translation to gnome)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Abel, I hope you don't mind me copying this to the list, but I might  
not be the only person who doesn't know this. :)

On 02/01/2006, at 12:04 PM, Abel Cheung wrote:

> Just a quick note. I see you have been working hard to add
> translation to gnome cvs, but simply adding translation is not
> enough. You have to tell software to BUNDLE it as well, otherwise
> it is simply not included into tarball at all. :-)

I had no idea of this. :(

Thankyou for telling me. :)
> To do this, you have to check these 2 cases one by one:
>
> 1. If the file "po/LINGUAS" exists (such as epiphany), it lists all  
> the
> locale names to be bundled. You should add "vi" to the list  
> (preferably
> alphabetically sorted).

OK, I can do this.
> 2. If (1) is not true, then check configure.in or configure.ac in  
> parent
> directory, and look for the line containing "ALL_LINGUAS=". All of the
> locale names are listed after equal sign, and as the same, add "vi"
> to the list.

I usually don't checkout the parent directory. :(

This means I'll have to do more of that. I'm not a Gnome user, you  
see (MacOSX). And I really don't have room on my disk for all these  
extra checkouts.

What a pain. :(

Can't we ask the developers to update their list when they roll their  
tarball?

I imagine all the files I've only updated will be OK, but the ones  
I've translated for the first time ... there are a lot, and they  
probably haven't been available in the Gnome 2.12 release at all!

Thankyou very much for your help. :)
> Happy New Year!

Thankyou, but you and I have New Year at the same time: not yet. :)

ChÃc máng NÄm Mái (Happy New Year) in advance!

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN