On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:48 AM, gan lu <rhythm.gan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, gan lu <rhythm.gan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks. > > > > > > > Right now the installer isn't really ready for translations. I'm sure > > it could be switched to gettext macros in the same way makepkg does > > it, but it's just not done yet. > > > > > So I made a bug report [1], I hope this situation would be taken seriously > by devs and improved quickly. I am making a list for i18n improvement for > Archlinux, which is one of it. > > [1]:http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10425 > 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)
