[Kde-scm-interest] Amarok move to git broke scripty

[Chani]

i miss kmail already :P got the list addy wrong this time

On 7/21/09, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
> oops, it seems google sent my last email to chusslove instead of to the list.
>
>  anyways... i was about halfway through a patch when they came to take
>  my laptop. sorry.
>  it seemed like a fairly simple patch after looking at it, apart from
>  the .desktop part which i wasn't quite done with... of course, simple
>  patches have a way of causing side-effects in scripty...
>  i'm afraid it'll probably be a few days before i have a dev
>  environment properly set up again.
>
>
>  On 7/21/09, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 7/21/09, Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic at gmx.net> wrote:
>  >  > >> [: Chusslove Illich :]
>  >  >  >> [...] l10n-kde4/templates/messages/amarok/ and the four of Amarok's POTs
>  >  >  >> inside?
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > [: Chani :]
>  >  >
>  >  > > I assume so. after all, amarok won't physically be in extragear, at least
>  >  >  > while it's being a guinea pig. is there a problem with that?
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > I would say that's a problem. For reasons both technical (moving POs around,
>  >  >  branching) and organizational (who translates what, prioritization), we need
>  >  >  need some sort of categorization on translations' side. Amarok is thus a
>  >  >  non-core KDE app endorsed by KDE project in some way ("extragear"), and of
>  >  >  multimedia type, so it should go into extragear-multimedia/ translations
>  >  >  module. (Not to say that categorization must remain as it is now, but it
>  >  >  should not depend on where and how the material for translation is fetched
>  >  >  _from.)
>  >
>  >
>  > the way scripty is designed, iirc, it does depend at least partially
>  >  on where it's fetched from... making scripty support modules with
>  >  translations that don't map 1-1 probably wouldn't be a huge task,
>  >  since the pots go one-way, but someone would have to do it. and i
>  >  can't remember whether .desktop files could complicate that...
>  >  probably only slightly...
>  >
>  >  things move around in kde all the time, so i didn't expect amarok
>  >  moving to be a problem :/ you could name it extragear-amarok if that
>  >  helps...
>  >
>  >  well, now it's clear that before we start moving kde we'd better have
>  >  a proper structure planned out for all the modules, and make sure that
>  >  structure doesn't cause trouble for translators.
>  >
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