Re: Download po files in a tar.gz

[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu>]

Vladimir Melo írta:
> 2008/11/13 Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>:
>> Le jeudi 13 novembre 2008 à 18:51 -0200, Vladimir Melo a écrit :
>>> 2008/11/13 Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For your information, I've added the possibility to download all po
>>>> files (tar.gz) for a specific language and release (doc and ui
>>>> separated) on l10n.gnome.org.
>>>> You'll find the link at the bottom ot the "language release" pages.
>>>> See e.g. http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/fi/gnome-2-24/
>>>>
>>>> I also took advantage to rename po files for help, which were often
>>>> uniformely named help.<branch>.<lang>.po. They contain now the name of
>>>> the application, e.g. eog-help.HEAD.fr.po
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>> I think this is a very useful feature, but it would be even better if
>>> we could keep this archive up-to-date.
>> What do you mean? Could you just explain us your use case?
>>
>> Claude
>>
>>
> 
> I think we could have a way to get message updates without download
> all over again.Of course we can rename the file and download the
> current archive, but it would be even better if we get just the diff
> between the previous and the current one.
> Maybe you can see a way to check if the archive is up-to-date and, if
> it's not, do it (merging?) taking advantage of the previous download.
> 

Well, we have a script[1] to download everything from d-l via wget, and
it takes about 10-15 minutes for me (on a 5 Mbit net) to complete.
downloading just this bunch of tar.gz files would take a lot less time.
IMHO with these compressed files, the whole process would be fast enough
to make no need of diffs or other complicated voodoo.

Regards
Gabor Kelemen

[1]:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-l10n-hu/ubuntu-hu-web/tools/annotate/13?file_id=gmirr.sh-20080622173636-p80j7a6larff5mau-2
and sorry for the Hungarian directory names and comments, I'll change
that soon :)