Re: translation CVS trees

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> So we end up with a gazillion directories and filenames. GNOME has a
> work-around for this problem. They have the GTP (GNOME Translation
> Project):
>   http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.6/ar/index.html
> 
> I am not sure what Arafat is doing currently.. but what needs to be done
> is the following:
> 
> 1. wget the PO's from the status page
> 2. merge them to our cvs (have our cvs mirror the structure on the
>    status page)
> 3. merge back to gnome cvs (to the appropriate path as per the status
>    page)

That's exactly what I had in mind - I didn't know how Gnome does their
CVS (I assumed their GTP was a mirror of their own internal CVS, guess
not).

> With that being said, there is absolutely no reason why we would want to
> mirror the GNOME CVS. Even if we were to mirror it, we would end up
> renaming files (since they would be named 'ar.po' per package).  

Agreed.  I meant to say we should mirror what is noted on their GTP
(ie. the link above) page since we are missing a heap of files/dirs.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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