Re: Localization framework
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:23:20PM +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
[...]
> BACKLINE: The package generating scripts could be patched so that they
> query the database (which could be later generated from SVN data) for
> translations automatically and put them into place. Should be discussed
> futher.
Consider a simple example: package foo-1.0-1 contains a xx.po file,
which is not up-to-date. Its translator commits a new version to the
central SVN repository, but the maintainer saw a typo in this xx.po and
fixed it before uploading foo-1.0-2. Now there is a conflict between
these 2 versions, how will you solve it?
IMO your project is not realistic, we cannot take translated files away
from maintainers's hands, so we should instead help translators to solve
the conflict described above.
You can have a look at
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/manpages/?cvsroot=ddp
this directory is quite similar to your central SVN repository, and we
resolve these conflicts manually, which is very painful.
Denis
Reply to: