[Localization] Deployment-specific packages?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> Am 08.10.2008 um 16:14 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg
>> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> We could shave off a few seconds of Etoys start-up time if, e.g., the
>>> Spanish translation was pre-loaded. Also, having a localized package
>>> would allow to include translated example projects and help guides
>>> (which are not covered by gettext-based translations).
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to put specific packages into the build for
>>> certain deployments?
>>>
>>
>>
>> For 9.1 I am planning on switching to RPM based language packs - which
>> can be used by deployments. Apart from the usual .mo files - these can
>> contain language specific enhancements which you are proposing.
>
>
> Well, but these would only be add-ons, right? I thought one rpm could
> not replace files in another rpm.


Yes - only add-ons (we are going to modify gettext and python-gettext
to look for translations in the language pack directory first).
Thanks,
Sayamindu


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