[arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:02:43AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> 
> It's a fact of open source software that things are only taken
> seriously if the contributor to the project NEEDS/WANTS it. I don't
> think i18n is a huge deal to any of our developers, so this won't come
> up as a high priority for any of us.
> 
> That is not to say that i18n is *unimportant*. It most certainly is
> not. But I know for a fact that it will get done much faster by
> someone who actually cares about translations.
> 
> My suggestion: find someone willing to write a patch for the installer
> who actually cares about i18n. If you expect the devs to do it
> themselves, then it will get done, just not as quickly as you'd
> expect, which may end up frustrating you.
> 
> The installer has a git repo here:
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=summary
> Find someone to patch in gettext macros (see makepkg for a good
> implementation), and it will get applied very quickly. Otherwise, we
> have much more pressing matters to spend our time on (i.e. getting out
> the next ISO)
> 

I just saw through the makepkg script, adding gettext support seems to
be easy. I'll start work on it on the weekend.

Regards,
-- 
Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu>
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