[Localization] etoys & Pootle (Re: Swedish translations for etoys)

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Pootle is still hogging enormous resources to update the files. I am
trying to figure out why. If not fixed by the next weekend - give me a
ping and I'll merge them by hand (msgmerge).
Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Sayamindu
>
>  Since blocker http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6221 (python-Levenshtein
>  installation) had been fixed,
>  could you please try again to merge etoys.pot to each language PO?
>
>  (some language community achieved almost 100% translated for old PO
>  (!) , and want to translate missing strings in current PO because of
>  failed merge of newer POT)
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>  /Korakurider
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Takashi Yamamiya <tak at metatoys.org> wrote:
>  > Hi Sayamindu,
>  >
>  >  Did you actually try python-Levenshtein? It made pot2po 20 times
>  >  faster on my test server.
>  >
>  >  ### With Levenshtein
>  >  $ time pot2po -t etoys/po/ja/etoys.po etoys/po/templates/etoys.pot ja.po
>  >  real    0m57.951s
>  >  user    0m57.116s
>  >  sys     0m0.308s
>  >
>  >  ### Without Levenshtein
>  >  $ time pot2po -t etoys/po/ja/etoys.po etoys/po/templates/etoys.pot ja.po
>  >  real    21m26.559s
>  >  user    21m18.504s
>  >  sys     0m0.388s
>  >
>  >  ### msgmerge
>  >  $ time msgmerge etoys/po/ja/etoys.po etoys/po/templates/etoys.pot > ja2.po
>  >  real    0m6.555s
>  >  user    0m6.440s
>  >  sys     0m0.032s
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >  - Takashi
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  > > > > Regarding POT merging, unfortunately I have not been able to this till
>  >  > > > > now - since it looks the PO files are too large for normal Pootle to
>  >  > > > > handle (the merge command took 100% CPU on the dual Opteron server for
>  >  > > > > 20 minutes before I killed it). I have spoken to the developers of
>  >  > > > > Pootle, and they suggested some optimizations which can be done
>  >  > > > > (certain extra Python modules need to be installed in the server) to
>  >  > > > > speed up the process. I'm trying to coordinate with the server admins
>  >  > > > > to do this. If nothing works out by the end of this week - I'll use
>  >  > > > > msgmerge manually from the command line to update the PO files.
>  >  > >
>  >  > > Maybe I have to learn python to help Pootle developers...
>  >  >     see the recent discussion on Pootle list Sayamindu mentioned,
>  >  >     insight on this was explained.
>  >  > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a1314bfe0801260957u762250e6idfcdc972147f4907%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=translate-pootle
>  >
>



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]