On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:01:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Michael" == Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> writes:
>
> Michael> All translations are store in one or more .mo files. And this file(s)
> Michael> are in normal packages.
>
> And thus, individual debs moved around on their own have no
> translations. I have to download one deb, for all 10,000 packages,
> with translations for (Ye Gods) all 50 languages we hope to have
> translations for, in order to pass the translation for this one deb
> around.
maybe I miss understand you. But I will try to anser...
Now you can say the descriptions of all packages are 50% of the size a
normal packages files. [1]
The size of the translation is maybe 0-30% bigger. The .mo file
include the orignal and the translated description with some empty
lines, some 'msgid', 'msgstr' and some commnents.
The size is like the normal Packages file (100-130%), if you have translated all
Description to one languages.
We will put one languages in one .deb file. If you will only english,
you need not download this deb. If you will use only english and
german you need only one of this deb's (and not all the other
translations)
> Has _anyone_ involved in this proposal ever heard of
> scalability issues? I am half inclined ot to object to this half
> baked proposal, which shall surely die under its won weight, but the
> loss of quality of the distribution is a concern.
I don't see a problem. This description translation has the same
scalability issues like the apt Packages file. But you must not
download this file all the time. Description are changed, but not all
the time ...
[1] make this:
$ wc sid/main/binary-i386/Packages
140697 636249 5222888
$ grep-dctrl -s Description . sid/main/binary-i386/Packages
49871 398456 2607258
Gruss
Grisu
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