Re: Adding translations, time and python

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Hi everybody :)

Thanks to Abel and Yavor, I found out that I had to add my language  
code to the configure.in or configure.ac file in order to add a  
translation, even if I had "cvs add"ed it before. I really appreciate  
their advice, which means my work will reach users in my language  
community.

Today I spent most of my effective translating time doing that add  
procedure, for the files I'd translated from scratch.

I really would rather spend that time translating, so this is going  
to put me off starting new translations from now on.

I am deeply grateful to the few developers who evidently saw my  
"Added Vietnamese translation" message in the ChangeLog and added my  
language to the configure file themselves. This saves any translator,  
and especially one as confused and short of mental resources as I,  
time they can spend in actual translation.

I was unable to add my language to meld, because that program had no  
configure file. Its directory was mostly full of python scripts: is  
there a different procedure for python programs?

Thankyou for any advice on this. :)

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