[Kde-extra-gear] Re: Fwd: Re: kdeextragear in kde-i18n

[Klas Kalass]

Note: I do not follow kde-i18n-doc, so please "reply to all" .

Am Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 10:09 schrieb Thomas Diehl:
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> Subject: Re: kdeextragear in kde-i18n
> Date: Dienstag, 26. November 2002 20:56
> From: Ludootje <ludootje@gmx.net>
> To: kde-i18n-doc@mail.kde.org
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> Op di 26-11-2002, om 10:13 schreef Klas Kalass:
> > As for the translations: The current state is that the packaging script
> > includes translations in the application tarball (currently only
> > specified languages). I can also imagine generating extra tarballs for
> > the translations (i.e. appname-i18n-lang.tgz). What do other people think
> > about this? Would it be better than including all languages in the one
> > tarball?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >   Klas
>
> If I understand it correctly, you're suggesting a tarball for EACH
> language of EACH extragear application? Like: gwenview-i18n-de.tar.bz2?
> A tarball for each language would make a lot of extra work, and the size
> of each of those tarballs would be incredibly small, so I think that the
> best thing to do is one tarball for ALL the languages of one application
> (example: gwenview-i18n.tar.bz2). Or each language its own tarball but
IMHO that would not improve a lot compared to packaging all translations with 
the application (which is the current state).

> for the entire extragear stuff (extragear-i18n-de.tar.bz2,
> extragear-i18n-fr.tar.bz2,...). Otherwise, it would just mean a lot of
That would defeat the purpose of the extragear to decouple the applications 
from each other to a certain degree.

> work for a ridiculous size.
Hmmm, I am not sure if it really makes a lot of work - for who? I am not 
suggesting making these packages by hand, they would be generated 
automatically. Nothing should change for the translators and ideally not for 
the packagers either.

But thinking about it, for people wanting to repackage the tgz into deb or rpm 
it might mean extra work, so you are probably right.

Thanks a lot for your comments, that saves me a lot of (useless) work :-)

And Thomas: Thanks for forwarding!

Klas