From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas) To: law@cygnus.com Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: i18n of egcs Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <3728dd6b.52244689@mailer.gwdg.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-04/msg00946.html Jeff, I've nearly finished translating egcs's messages into german and will send the translation to people from the german translation team who volunteered to proofread my work in a day or two. I *still* haven't got any answer from François Pinoir, the maintainer for the FSF translation project, so this will likely be the only translation for the time being. Some points should be noted for the future though. The generation of the basic gcc.pot needs a modified gettext 0.10.35 (patch in ABOUT-GCC-NLS). So in order to not require that an egcs user has to patch his gettext package, your release scripts should generate a gcc.pot for inclusion into the egcs releases, as the modified xgettext is only need for the extraction of the messages from the source code. Updating the translations (xx.po) and compiling them can be done with an unmodified gettext package. The second point is that it should be stated somewhere in the top level documentation, that anyone who uses NLS and modifies the code needs the patched gettext. I think it would be a good idea to modify the top level configure to run sub level configures when called with --help to get a list of the optional parameters that may be passed to them. What do you think ? Philipp Thomas -- caffeine low .... brain halted From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas) To: law@cygnus.com Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: i18n of egcs Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3728dd6b.52244689@mailer.gwdg.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-04n/msg00955.html Message-ID: <19990430231500.2EaoUe6SRYT5XJ7FA20m_w44nay-8zyqGkWQ4QRXbE0@z> Jeff, I've nearly finished translating egcs's messages into german and will send the translation to people from the german translation team who volunteered to proofread my work in a day or two. I *still* haven't got any answer from François Pinoir, the maintainer for the FSF translation project, so this will likely be the only translation for the time being. Some points should be noted for the future though. The generation of the basic gcc.pot needs a modified gettext 0.10.35 (patch in ABOUT-GCC-NLS). So in order to not require that an egcs user has to patch his gettext package, your release scripts should generate a gcc.pot for inclusion into the egcs releases, as the modified xgettext is only need for the extraction of the messages from the source code. Updating the translations (xx.po) and compiling them can be done with an unmodified gettext package. The second point is that it should be stated somewhere in the top level documentation, that anyone who uses NLS and modifies the code needs the patched gettext. I think it would be a good idea to modify the top level configure to run sub level configures when called with --help to get a list of the optional parameters that may be passed to them. What do you think ? Philipp Thomas -- caffeine low .... brain halted