[arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[gan lu]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
>
It's understandable, it's just over my capability to make a patch, I am not
a programmer anyway, so I add a feature request in bug tracker for
reminding.

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

Great, thank you very much.

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