Re: other/2857: i18n, translations does not work

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>]

The following reply was made to PR other/2857; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>,
   Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de>, Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr,
   gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/2857: i18n, translations does not work
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:16:47 -0700

 On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
 > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
 > 
 > > On the other hand, it might be more useful to have a known place to
 > > work from, which would argue for leaving gcc.pot in CVS and updating
 > > it periodically.
 > 
 > But that known place for translators of GNU software is
 > 
 > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/pot/
 
 I *thought* there was some sort of web page like that, but I couldn't
 remember where it lived.
 
 > though we should, at least, have a defined tag in the repository (maybe a
 > snapshot or release tag) for the sources from which a .pot was generated,
 > if the .pot doesn't go in CVS.
 
 We ought to be regularly uploading revised .pot files, and checking
 for completed translations.  Did anyone know that there are complete
 Danish and Japanese translations (for a gcc.pot from 2000-06-07, but
 still...) sitting there?
 
 -- 
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