Re: Batch-download all GNOME po directories

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Johannes Schmid wrote:

> > > and keep those on your system. We now know the figures;
> > > the GNOME 2.26 Git repositories would take about 2.6GB on your disk.
> > 
> > 2.6GB, but that doesn't count some big repositories, for exemple gimp
> > and gnumeric are both over 200MB.
> 
> Actually the whole discussion scares me a bit. Do you really never test
> the modules you translate? I mean of course you cannot check every
> single dialog but at least a quick overview is a must for correct
> translations imho.

Many translators do compile their .po files and install them in their
/usr/ filesystem, with popular distributions tracking the GNOME
development versions, it is really a viable solution.


> And if you use the jhbuilds available for all gnome modules that
> shouldn't be a big deal and doesn't require any development skills.

This is, quite unfortunately, not true.


        Frederic