[Gforge-devel] Switched to gettext

[Robert Nelson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gforge-devel-bounces at lists.gforge.org [mailto:gforge-devel-
> bounces at lists.gforge.org] On Behalf Of Roland Mas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: gforge-devel at lists.gforge.org
> Subject: [Gforge-devel] Switched to gettext
> 
> - When the translators have done their job, and sent updated *.po
>   files, run ../tools/make-mo.sh, which will regenerate the
>   locales/xx/LC_MESSAGES/gforge.mo files.  These files should be
>   installed into /usr/share/locale/xx/LC_MESSAGS/gforge.mo, so that
>   gettext finds them (if that path is liable to change -- although I
>   doubt it, it seems pretty standard across Linux distros --
>   BaseLanguage.class should be updated accordingly).
> 

Chris and I have been working on removing hardcoded paths from GForge so
that it can be installed on systems without root access.  Do you mind if I
change this hardcoded path to a local.inc variable called $sys_locale_path?

> 
>   Plugins hosted in the gforge.org SVN trunk are internationalised the
> same as the rest of the core code.  For external plugins, the
> procedure will be slightly more complex.  Since they can't depend on
> their strings being present in the main catalog, they'll need to use
> another "domain".  In other words, they won't be able to simply use
> _("foo bar"), but they'll have to use the longer
> dgettext("gforge-plugin-foobar", "foo bar") instead; also, they'll
> need to provide gforge-plugin-foobar.mo files and declare that gettext
> domain around the initialisation time of the plugin.  I guess I'll try
> and code that on an "external" plugin.
> 

If you decide to put their language files in a different directory, can you
also make it a variable rather than a hardcoded path?

>   I've built Debian packages out of this current state, and they do
> seem to work as expected.  The remaining work is to finish the
> transition by working on the difficult cases.
> 
>   Hope you'll like it!
> 
> Roland.
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> Roland Mas
> 
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