Thanks for the feedback, Ville and Jason. Incidentally, I should publicly note at some point that my presence here is all Ville's fault. :-) If he hadn't prodded me, I'd still be doing this: http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/Projects/RPMS/ I hope to move many of the RPMs there to Fedora (although some of them cannot be moved for licensing reasons). Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 at 22:03:13 -0500 you wrote: >>>>>> "JJ" == Jerry James <Jerry.James@xxxxxxx> writes: > JJ> 1) Download all of the language files and include them in one > JJ> monolithic moodle SRPM. Split out the installation and use files > JJ> for each language into a language subpackage. This lets us keep > JJ> all the files for a particular language in one place, but means > JJ> that anytime an individual language file gets updated, we have to > JJ> rebuild the whole thing. > > That may not be much of a problem if the language files don't change > much more often than the package itself. I'm a pretty new moodle user, so I don't yet have a feel for how often they change. Plus, I've been ignoring the language packs anyway, since I am a native U.S.an teaching at a U.S. school. > JJ> 2) Embrace the fact that the installation language files are small > JJ> (a few hundred bytes to a few K apiece), and partially unnecessary > JJ> anyway. Just put them into the main moodle package (once!). > JJ> Create separate SRPMs for each language file with the date stamp > JJ> for the version number. Now language packs can be updated > JJ> individually, but this also means that I will suddenly be the > JJ> maintainer for 60+ additional packages in which I have no personal > JJ> interest. > > I'd expect the maintenance overhead of one of these to be low, but > having to rev 60 of them at a time might be just plain annoying. That's my worry, yes. > I think the final decision rests with you; you need to determine how > much time you can invest and how much process you're willing to put up > with. Perhaps you can find someone willing to assist you in > maintaining these? I suppose that if nobody is willing to do so, you > could simply drop those languages in which you're not interested. I don't want to spend much time on the language packs, since I will never use them myself. I'm going to try option (1) and see how it goes. I probably won't be terribly snappy about updating language packs off of the moodle release cycle, though. Thanks, -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor Jerry.James@xxxxxxx Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
