How to install library translations as libkfoo-<ABI-major>.mo instead of libkfoo.mo

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Jun 15 12:58:23 BST 2007


Chusslove Illich said:
> Thinking more about this, I'm not sure that it is a good solution to split
> KDE4 catalogs into another directory. If two packages are supposed to live
> side by side on the system, the gettext-y way is that they install their
> catalogs in standard locale dir, with different names. This is the
> expected
> behavior, that won't surprise distributions.
>
> Furthermore, if KDE4 kdelibs would install its catalogs and setup catalog
> lookup into a special directory, then all KDE4 apps would follow the
> suite,
> creating a parallel locale directory for the lifetime of KDE4.

Agreed. Giving a different name to the catalog file would be better then.

> So... While KDE3 and KDE4 libs should be installable side by side, how
> about
> different versions of KDE4 libs? If not, as it seems reasonable to me,
> then
> why not just rename those ~20 POTs in kdelibs to *4 scheme right now, mass
> rename the existing POs in l10n-kde4, and be done with it?

There are no other versions of the KDE 4 libs. The next version means KDE 5.

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