Hello all
I speak with doodgie (Adam Heath) in a irc chat and he say this:
<hartmans> grisu: I think your case would be better served by writing up clear requirements (and +no, use gettext is not a valid requiremen t, at least not with the justification given so far) rather +than discussing design or implementation. Pretend you are the customer and the dpk g-team are a bunch +of consultants and try to write up the same requirements spec you would give those consultants.
<doogie_> tell us what you want. not what you want done.
No I write some requirements in the attachement. Maybe you have time
and send some comments or add some new points.
After this discussion I will send this to dpkg@lists.d.o. Maybe they
find a technical solution for ours requirements...
Thanks.
Gruss
Grisu
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some mandatory points:
- The system must show the translated description on command outputs
and on the display
- The system must use the normal environment system from gettext to
choose the displayed translation. ('LANG', 'LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL'
'LC_MESSAGES' and see the gettext source code) (Also the fallback
languages)
- The system must not depend on the package maintainer. some
solutions:
- dinstall changes the deb files with an override file
- the system uses other local override files on the system
- The system can search in the description of not (yet) installed
packages descriptions.
- the system never shows an outdated translation (if someone
changes the orignal description and the
translation hasn't been modified yet)
some desirable points:
- If the user searches in the descriptions (like apt-cache search) the
system should optionally search in the orignal and/or other
languages also.
- The translations should also (optional) be included in the deb file
- A change of a translation doesn't require a new build of the package on
the build machines
some needed points:
- The system uses an optinal override methode (like /etc/menus/ in the
menu system)
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